I love to dream and vision about the future. If you want to inspire me, give me an incredible vision and I'm yours. As I lead a campus ministry, vision is constantly something I'm communicating - in sermons, in one-on-one conversations, in bible studies. We're praying around the vision, we're talking about the vision, we're singing about the vision - we want students to know the vision - that we would be a movement of God renewing the campus where ordinary students are transformed into world changers.
Here's my problem - my vision is too big to communicate! Wait, but vision is supposed to be big, right? Yes! And I don't think we should change our vision; I believe it's from God. But I'm always trying to communicate all the pieces of the vision rather than focusing on certain components that are going to help us get there. So for the campus renewed, students need to be transformed. Which means that I need to spend more time helping my students deepen their spiritual relationship with God. But I'm always thinking about the mission and about outreach with a big O! I think that I need to break that down into smaller steps of growth and outreach (with a small o). Steps where students feel cared and can see their own growth as they engage in the mission. The picture that comes to mind is constantly trying to push something into a hole that is way too small - that should happen every once in a while to see if you're getting close and you should always have a picture of what you're working towards, but not in a violent destructive way.
Obviously, I'm still chewing on some of this stuff. It's not coming out very well. But I think there is some truth in it.
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