{"id":34080,"date":"2022-09-10T21:14:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/visionary-leadership\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:14:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:14:12","slug":"visionary-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/visionary-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Visionary Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his book <em><em>Survival Skills: Leading Your Church in a Changing World<\/em><\/em>, Stan Toler quoted a church leader who obviously was seminar-weary: &#8220;I have a mission; or is it a vision; or are they goals? Oh, who cares! God will sort it all out in His will.&#8221; Leadership without a definite vision is similar to a luxury car without an engine. The shiny materials are all there, but the drive is missing.<\/p>\n<p>Stan writes: &#8220;Vision is like a thumb in the Christian leader&#8217;s back. It encourages you to take bold steps toward Spirit-directed goals. It is not only the scaffolding of God&#8217;s will for your life; it activates and focuses the skills of your fellow laborers. As you give people a clear picture of where they could be, they&#8217;ll be more apt to head in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>What is visionary leadership?<br \/><strong>* It is directional.<\/strong> It points to definite places, times and tangible results.<br \/><strong>* It is practical.<\/strong> It sets goals and objectives that are within reach.<br \/><strong>* It is motivational.<\/strong> It creates an environment of enthusiasm.<br \/><strong>* It is eternal.<\/strong> It builds on the things that last forever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung said, &#8216;Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.&#8217; So look inside. See the resurrection power of the Holy Spirit that not only gives energy enough to awaken you, but direction enough to guide you.&#8221; (Click here to learn more about the book <em><em>Survival Skills<\/em><\/em>.) <\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/visionary-leadership\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his book Survival Skills: Leading Your Church in a Changing World, Stan Toler quoted a church leader who obviously was seminar-weary: &#8220;I have a mission; or is it a vision; or are they goals? Oh, who cares! God will sort it all out in His will.&#8221; Leadership without a definite vision is similar to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/visionary-leadership\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Visionary Leadership&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}