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Vision casting

The most well documented vision casting in history includes, Martin Luther's I have a dream and Billy Graham's revival speeches. A lot of times, a good vision cast is seen as a once off event where someone say something so inspiring or create such a emotional stir that people buy into to the vision, they treat the success of the vision as their own and at that moment, they are willing to do whatever it takes to see it come to pass. Some call it an emotional high. However, there must be more then this to a good vision cast. Something else seems to be missing.

Yes, a good vision cast is not a once off hair raising, electrifying affair. A good vision cast will spark off a chain of events after the vision cast that will mark the success or failure of the event itself. There much be tangible substance within the vision cast that will result in changes after the vision cast. in another words, a vision cast should not just give people hope, it should also give them, something to work upon. what's next after being inspired to do something for God?

Other then that, i make it a point to stress that a good vision is not cast over one night. It is in fact cast over weeks, months, if not years. i don't believe that Abraham Lincoln only came up with the vision of freeing the blacks in America only on that faithful day. I believe that this vision has been cast repeatedly to those close to him, to his friends, to family members, to supports.

People are forgetful people. After the emotional high, after the response time, we need to repeatedly remind people through smaller sessions about their commitment to the vision. Once in a while, come together as a congregation to recommit to the vision once again.

A good vision cast is a vision that is repeated to the congregation regularly throughout the entire duration of the process to reach the vision.

Leaders, don't be too quick or impatient to change track. What do i mean by this? Let me give you an example of how i run the NS vision night. The NS vision night is a quarterly event in which we gather as a ministry to talk about vision and direction of the ministry in the quarter. As a leader, does that mean that i have to cast a new vision every other quarter? What if we are not on track for this two years vision that i cast in the previous vision night? Does that mean that i have to re-engineer the vision from scratch?

By all means! no! We live in a culture of instant success. We sow and expect converts immediately, long term vision like a 2 year plan no longer appeal to us because it is not "instant" enough, we cast a vision but don't want to commit to it when there is no short term success. My challenge to leaders today:

Cast a vision, stick to it, twitch it when you have to, repackage the vision to keeps things fresh, but the content remains relatively the same and see it come to pass. Don't be too quick to dispose of the vision which God has graciously granted you.

In one of the previous vision night,

i remember i talked about the same topic. Still remember the 3 pts:

1) Vision is normally birthed from life's reality.
2) Receive the vision from God.
3) Protect the vision from harm.

Yes! that's it, if the vision can make someone die for the kingdom, what makes you think that the devil won't come in and try to take it away. Protect the vision God has given you from harm always.

Regards,

Jie Hui

Labels: Leadership

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Thursday, July 03, 2008