When the stars align, with the moon at the right distance leaving the tides at the exact, necessary level, and a horse shoe, what happens is a leader says something and it catches fire. The people follow and get excited - and all what was said was one thing.
But, in the real world that the rest of us live in, it requires far more intentionality. It requires repeating things over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over - and then, once they all know it, then you can repeat it with them, over and over, and over, and over...
That's how you pull the vision out of people. The vision becomes so internalized that they understand it, that it's part of them, and so when it comes time to pull the vision out, it actually is freeing for them so they can run with it.
Lazy leadership, poor leadership, whatever you call it, is not leading - it's not providing the target.
"I'm just trying to lead them to Jesus." Ok, great, how?
What's the way you're doing it? Or are you just kind of setting them loose - even within your worship services - saying, "Ok, now enter in to the presence of Jesus."
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How do you lead them to Jesus? What is it that they need to internalize? If there's just one thing that you want people to know about your church - or for the church to understand and get - what would that one thing be?
That's your vision, that's what you're trying to set loose. That's the thing that you need to, not grab it by the horns, but show the path and let it run.
Bad leadership takes people the wrong direction - poor leadership doesn't get people on board with a mission and a plan. Good leadership will have an ambiguous goal with a relative strategy (Kind of like giving a 12 year old a city map and say, "go here."). Great leadership knows the target, and shows the way to get there.
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