Loved Andy Stanley's session at Exponential. He talked about how to make vision stick. Here are the five vision principles he shared:
1) Make it simple
Boil it down to an irreducible minimum. Andy cited the One Campaign's vision statement as an example: make poverty history.
Andy also shared Northpoint's vision: to create a church that unchurched people love to attend.
"Stories do more to clarify and illustrate vision than anything else."
5) Embrace it Personally and Publicly
1) Make it simple
Boil it down to an irreducible minimum. Andy cited the One Campaign's vision statement as an example: make poverty history.
Andy also shared Northpoint's vision: to create a church that unchurched people love to attend.
"Vision leaks." As your church gets larger, you need more vision and you need to share it more frequently. One of the unique challenges we face at NCC is our turnover rate. 44% of NCCers have attended less than one year. So we need to communicate vision more consistently.
"Stories do more to clarify and illustrate vision than anything else."
5) Embrace it Personally and Publicly
5 Comments:
great stuff Mark. thanks for the post. really does boil it down.
i send a lot of my college students who head back to DC to your church..they love it.
rhett
Thanks for sharing today. I appreciated the way your five challenges tied in with what Andy had to say. You brought to life some practical applications. Thanks for your passion and open honesty.
Yeah, he recently share the same talk at Maximum Impact with John Maxwell. I loved it!
Mark,
It was good to meet you and sit in on one of your sessions at Exponential.
Blessings,
Jeff Calloway
www.visionallife.com
44% have attended less than a year? I knew NCC was mobile, but I didn't realize there were that many new people. It really brings home the point you made last weekend about being hospitable. Those are a bunch of folks who probably don't know too many people at church, and I would guess many of them are probably new to DC as well.
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