Vision in/of the Church
Reading through some of the blogs I frequent here tonight, and saw a new post on “nakedpastor”. In his post, David talks about Vision within the church (go read his post to see what he says).
That made me think of a conversation I was having with the pastor of a new, small church when I was a missionary in Ukraine a few years ago. Back then, I was still thinking along the lines of the more “traditional” ways of doing church, and he was trying to figure out what to do with this church that had started almost by accident (but that’s a whole other story).
Anyway, as we were talking, I asked him what his vision was for the church. He replied that he didn’t have one – and that if anything, his only vision was to provide a place that was open and safe for others to pursue their own vision for following Jesus. Whatever that might be.
As I think back now, I think he had a better idea of what church should be than most of what I have heard since then!