What is more foundational that all this talk about the church suffering from a lack "leadership" and "vision". Those are the easy things....
<blockquoye>"Those who desire holiness must learn and relearn to play with God. God-pleasing and Godplaying replace goal seeking and vision casting. Does your church life revolve around goals? Do you go through a vision-casting process every five years? Or do you seek to be quick to fall on your knees and spring fast on your feet to be the people of God in every walk of life? Participation in God’s nature is the true goal of human life"
(Leonard Sweet. The Well Played Life)
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Right or wrong, and not suggesting that making plans is evil, but for a long long time i have felt the real issue is not lack of vision, nor lack of leadership from people like me, or a lack of leadership toward me from others...
There is something deeper, more guttural we are not addressing with the bows and ribbons we are constantly playing with... Well the bows and ribbons I played with for 15 years..... Anyway, How do you measure transformation? The only thing Jesus said is "by their fruit you will know them." How do we lead, and vision cast a people who lost their "spring" and their "fall"? - that Leonard writes about...
If they have a living "spring", "fall", and "walk" my experience is they have no lack of vision and no need of my leadership.
The book of Collosians may have the only answer. When the people are off track, there is immorality, false teaching, a loss of love for others and for Jesus.... Paul's solution in Colossians was simple... to unfold a greater revelation of the person of Jesus. The only one who gives "springs", fixes "springs", and invented "springs"... no reason to spring without him. Can't help but "spring" with him....
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