VISION for GREATER THINGS

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Andy Stanley in his book "VISIONEERING" says that visions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension of WHAT IS and WHAT COULD BE. Every time I think about these words I get fired up! I get fired up dreaming that God has...
  • So much more for GRANITE
  • So much more for New England
  • So much more for our kids, students and families
  • So much more for His Kingdom
  • So many more campuses to start
  • So many more church to plant
  • So many more groups to start
  • So many more souls to be saved
  • So many more disciples to be made
If we are going to live inside the tension of WHAT COULD BE, we need to get to the point of becoming DISCONTENT with WHAT IS. That doesn't mean we don't take time to celebrate WHAT IS, it means we use what God is doing as the fuel to move us beyond WHAT IS to WHAT COULD BE. God has so much more, I believe it with all my heart, but we need to move into becoming leaders who are not leading from the point of WHERE WE ARE, but leaders who are leading and making decisions for WHERE WERE GOING.

But in order to lead from the vantage point of WHERE WERE GOING, you have to have a VISION for what that is, what that looks like, and what it will take as a leader to GET THERE. VISION doesn't worry about parking spaces, seat capacity, or building size, it doesn't focus on the hundreds that are connected but on the thousands who need to be connected. This is where we begin transitioning from WHAT IS to WHAT COULD BE!

Vision carries with it a a sense of urgency and expectancy, and drives us to REFUSE TO STAY WHERE WE ARE. So let me ask you, WHAT DO YOU SEE? Do you see WHAT IS or do you see WHAT COULD BE? Are you leading for WHAT IS, or are creating teams and systems for WHAT COULD BE? Are you coasting and basking in WHAT IS? Or are you pushing yourself and leading your teams to the edge of WHAT COULD BE?

Granite is at a HUGE HUGE CROSSROAD a DEFINING MOMENT, and we will be making GOD SIZED DECISIONS in the next few weeks. If you are stalled at WHAT IS you will become overwhelmed, but if you step into the realm of WHAT COULD BE, you will find yourself overjoyed at the thought of WHAT GOD WILL DO through you!

Its your call!

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  1. CourtNovember 15, 2010 at 12:19 AM

    It's awesome that the dream isn't limited to a few people, but that God wants to do something GREAT in each of us. Specifically excited about Granite & the NE United. Group of world changers PUMPED about PAST SUCCESS but Discontent with the status quo. SOOOO.. WHEN'S THE UNVEILING OF THE NEXT STEP??

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