“What’s your vision?”
If you’re a new pastor, chances are you’ve heard some form of that question countless times.
Perhaps it’s been posed by existing members of your new church, anxiously wanting to know the direction you plan on taking them. Maybe it’s from potential members who’ve shown interest in joining the work with you but need to know the blueprint before signing on.
It could be the inquiry of partnering churches or parachurch organizations, promising money and manpower to help, if you answer the question correctly.
“What’s your vision?”
I can’t recall all the ways I’ve replied, but looking back after my first year of pastoral ministry, I’m certain many of my responses were inadequate. Why? Because they were far too short-sighted. While I may have communicated my hope for a long, faithful ministry at the same place with the same people, my vision still wasn’t cast far enough into the future. I should have set my sights on something more distant and more essential: heaven.
Brothers, at the beginning of our ministries, we need a grand vision for where it all ends. We need a vision of heaven.
Let me offer three reasons why focusing on heaven is indispensable if
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