Henry Blackaby on "The Leader’s Vision"

I’ve been slowly working my way through Henry Blackaby’s book on Spiritual Leadership. It’s an excellent book which has really challenged me in to be not just a leader, but a spiritual leader.

One of the best chapters in the book is entitled “The Leader’s Vision.” He deals with three areas:

1. Where do leaders get their vision?
2. How does vision inspire and move people?
3. How do leaders communicate vision?

After giving a long (but very helpful) list of wrong places where leaders go for vision, Blackaby sums up the idea of vision this way:

• It’s not the leader’s job to set the vision. Vision comes from the revelation of God and from no other place.
• It’s not the leader’s job to sell the vision.
• Instead, it’s the leader’s job to share in story and in symbol how God has been working in the past, present, and future.

The leader’s goal is to demonstrate that God, not the leader, is the author of the vision.

These insights have been a huge help to me in my role as a church leader. I’ve always hated the idea of painting this picture of the future and then trying to sell them on it. But telling God-stories? I can definitely get into that! God has been and continues to do amazing things in our church, and it’s no problem at all to tell those stories.

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