Vision, vision, vision!

Pastor Greg wrote a great blog today! Check it out here http://gregoraham.blogspot.com/2008/03/lessons-ive-learned-over-last-10-years.html

I have been at Foothills for 9 of it's 10 years and Greg's unfailing focus to the vision that God gave to him and Liz has been awesome to observe and to be a part of. At Foothills, as Greg mentioned, the vision is cast over and over again....but for me what is so cool is that the vision of the Church is the measuring stick in the decision making process. There have been many times when there was an idea that felt good to staff or volunteers, but when measured against the vision, just didn't work....and those ideas were scrapped. That is often hard for people to deal with if they have attached themselves to an idea more than they have attached themselves to the vision. But when the vision is your primary focus you realize that your personal feelings are not what is really important. We should each constantly revisit the vision to make sure we "get it" and use it as the measure in everything we do in our area of ministry.