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Indiana Conference
The United Methodist Church
Visioning Workshop
(Church location & Date)
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Prov. 29:18
Objectives of Today’s
Workshop
To gain a clearer understanding of:
• The Value of Visioning;
• The Impact of Vision Within the Church
• The 3 Necessary Components of Vision;
• How Vision is Developed.
Church LifeCycle
Adulthood
Adolescence
Maturity
Empty Nest
Childhood
Retirement
Infancy
Old Age
Birth
Death
Start a new LifeCycle!
Four Components of a
New LifeCycle (VRMS)
• Fresh Vision for the future.
• Relationships that embrace new people.
• Ministries/Programs that focus on
outreach
• Structures that anchor accountability
Key Terms
Core Values:
the constant, passionate, biblical core beliefs
that drive your church and ministry.
1. Describe your church at its very best;
2. What a congregation desires to be.
Mission:
a broad, brief, biblical statement of what the
ministry is supposed to be doing. The focus
is on “what” we are to do.
Key Terms:
Vision:
a clear, challenging picture of the future
of the ministry, as you believe that it can
and must be. The unique way your
church will carry out the mission.
Goals & Objectives: tangible
measurement on the path to the vision.
The Value of Mission & Vision
• Mission means that we are moving….
are in process …… are working towards a
common goal of what we exist to do.
• Our MISSION does not change.
• While many things around us are altered,
changed, updated, or deleted
our MISSION continues to define
Who we are and why we exist.
Vision
is what God gives leaders
in order to move our mission and
meet particular needs
for a particular time.
• Vision does change.
• As a discerning leader you come to
understand what God knows “can be”
and so you begin to take the strategic
steps necessary for fruitfulness …. what it
“will be.”
Vision-eering
Visioneering =
Inspiration +
Action +
Determination +
Completion
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4 Components of an
Effective Vision
1. The Problem.
2. The Solution.
3. The Reason something must be
done.
4. The Reason something must be
done Now.
How can vision
make that much of a
difference?
Why does a
clear vision enable you
to see things that
differently?
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Vision weaves four wonderful
things into our experience:
1. Passion.
Vision evokes emotion.
2. Motivation.
Vision provides motivation.
3. Direction.
It serves as a road map & can simplify our
decision making.
4. Vision translates into purpose.
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Churches, like people,
end up somewhere
in their lifetime.
A few end up
somewhere on purpose.
Those are typically the
ones with vision
Vision gives significance
to the otherwise
meaningless details of our lives.
Take that ordinary and mix it up
with a God-ordained vision and
suddenly there is
Purpose! Meaning! Adrenaline!
Vision brings your world into focus.
A clear vision enables you to see
everything differently.
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Enlarge the place of
your tent.
Stretch your tent
curtain wide;
Do not hold back;
lengthen your cord,
Strengthen your stakes.
Isaiah
54:2
Top 10 Most Receptive in Our
Mission Field:
1. Second-time visitors 6. Parental Challenges
(guests)
2. Friends of new
believers
7. Finance Matters
3. Divorced/Single
8. New Residents
4. First-time parents
9. Illness
5. Marriage problems
10. Recovery issues
4 MISSION FIELDS
1. Those currently in your
congregation that don’t have a
personal relationship with Christ.
2. Those people outside church that
are like you.
3. Those people outside church that
are not like you.
4. Those in locations outside your
community.
Activity
What must we do to reach them?
•In your group:
– Consider “what” your mission
field is like.
– Consider “who” is receptive in
your mission field.
– Brainstorm a list of ideas for
reaching out to your mission
field.
TAKE A
BREAK!
Vision
Part 2
What is Vision?
Where
does vision
come
from?
Bearing Fruit; Ministry
with Real Results
L. Weems, Jr. & T. Berlin
God’s Vision is More than
the Leader’s Vision
Fruitful biblical leadership is about vision. It is not
about a leader’s vision, however, but the vision to which God is calling a people. It is
from obedience to a calling from God that visions for ministry emerge. Beginning
with God’s calling clearly shows that God is the source. It implies a discernment
process that a leader does not carry out alone, something that is often missing when
people describe their visions of the future. The best visions are never about our
wishes but about God’s will for our community and our servanthood of God’s
vision. Fruitful Christian leadership begins the day that we are able to align the
calling of God in our lives with the mission and context in which we serve. Then
the vision emerges out of our community as God’s people together discern the
calling of God in all of our lives in light of our mission and context. It is the next
faithful step toward becoming a mission-shaped church.
Bearing Fruit; Weems/Berlin (pages 39-41)
The “Vision Intersection
Profile”
The
Community
“Needs”
Experiencing God
Henry Blackaby’s Reality #1:
GOD IS ALWAYS AT WORK AROUND YOU.
“You never find God asking people to dream up
what they want to do for Him. The pattern in
the Scripture looks like this: you submit
yourself to God, and you wait until He shows
you what He is about to do.”
“It is better to be still and do nothing with God
than to be busy and do much without Him.”
Blackaby goes on to say,
“For unless God allows you to see where
He is working, you will not see it. You
can involve yourself in doing good
things, but you may miss the work that
God intended you to do. The servant
doesn’t tell the Master what kind of
assignment he needs. Instead,
he waits on his Master
to give him the assignment.”
Investigate First
• Helps to distinguish between a good cause
and a God-ordained vision.
• Recognizing a need does not necessarily translate into
vision.
• A general sense of sadness about the condition of a
group of people is not a vision …. that’s compassion.
• Don’t commit in response to the passion of the needs
of the moment. Emotional commitments are only as
strong as the emotions.
• Timing is everything….Don’t rush!
WHY WE DON‘T INVESTIGATE
1. IMPATIENCE (I already know….let’s go!)
2. PRIDE (What’s the point? I already know
everything!)
3. FEAR (If things are that bad I’ll get
discouraged.)
The “Vision Intersection Profile”
Leadership
“Passion”
Community
“Needs”
Leaders maintain
EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL WELL-BEING
in their organizations by staying true:
•
to STRATEGIC GOALS;
•
to action directed toward GOAL
ACHIEVEMENT;
•
to a high degree of TEAM INTERACTION,
•
to maintaining a RELIANCE ON GOD that
provides clarity of purpose.
3 Keys in Visionary
Leadership
1. Navigates in the fog
2. Eliminates the impact of fear;
Fear of making mistakesFear of doing some things differentFear of getting lost for a whileFear of conflict
3. Avoids distractions.
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Group Activity:
Build the Best Tower
1. In this activity, your group will
follow the direction given by your
leader.
2. You can use any of the materials
in your bag to build the BEST
tower.
3. You will have a limited time to
complete this task.
The “Vision Intersection Profile”
Leadership
“Passion”
The
Congregation
The
Community
“Needs”
“Shape for
ministry/
discipleship
growth”
Know Your SHAPE:
S = Spiritual Gifts
H = Heart
A = Aptitude/Ability
P = Personality/Preferences
E = Experiences
Zig Ziglar: “Are you a
wandering generality or a
meaningful specific?”
Wandering generalities often miss
the mark because they are running
around trying to be all things to all
people.
The “Vision Intersection Profile”
Leadership
Passion
VISION
The Community
Needs
The
Congregation
Shape for ministry/
discipleship growth
Prayer Walk
Right now:
Decide what area of this community (or
within this church) is an area that God has
put on your heart as a mission field that
needs to see God’s love.
Come make a sign where that location is
and make sure no one else is duplicating
that location. Hold your sign up and invite
others to join your team.
Prayer Walk
1. Gather according to mission field interest. Write
the names and phone # of everyone the back of that
mission site poster.
2. Groups of at least 3 people should plan to meet at that
location sometime within the next 2 weeks. Make sure
that everyone is in a group and that you know who will
make arrangements for your group.
3. Spend time walking and praying at the location and pray (
asking God what He wants to reveal to you about this
mission field. Be observant to the surrounding and
people that might be there.
4. After the prayer time, gather back with your group and
write a summary of what you felt God telling you.
5. Give the summary to your pastor.
Windshield Surveys
Community Leader Surveys
Questions to Ponder
Considering our community…
what do you sense God desires to
accomplish within and through our church in
the next three years?
IN 2015 OUR CHURCH…
• Has what ministries in place?
• Is reaching what kind of people?
• Is new and/or different in what ways from 3
years ago?
Vision Timeline
1. Summaries of Prayer Walks, Windshield Survey
and Community Leader Survey reviewed by
visioning team;
2. Visioning team meets until a draft is concluded;
3. Pastor takes Vision draft to Leadership team;
4. Leadership team gives input for additional
action back to the visioning team;
5. Visioning team meets and re-submits Vision
back to Leadership team;
Vision timeline, continued
7. Leadership team approves the Vision.
8. Vision is introduced to the congregation;
9. Second vision workshop is held: Transitioning
Vision to Ministry;
10. Ministry teams begin to align ministry to vision
using strategy, goals (fruitfulness), and evaluation.
11. Plans for how to keep the Vision fresh and visible in
constant discussion.
Dreamers vs Visionaries
Dreamers dream about
things being different –
Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.
Dreamers think about how
nice it would be for
something to be done.
Visionaries look for an
opportunity to do
something.
(Church location & Date)
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Prov. 29:18