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Thursday Leadership Lesson: Passionate Vision

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

In last week’s Leadership Lesson, we talked about the importance of vision. Bill Hybels defined vision as “a picture of the future that produces passion.”
Do you have a picture of the future that produces passion? Does your picture of the future produce passion in you? Does it fuel passion in others? For the next few [...]

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Thursday Leadership Lesson: Vision

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

For the past few months, we have talked about different dimensions of discipleship. What it means to be a seeker, learner, influencer, and investor. We have talked about the discipleship map and how to encourage people to take the next step in their spiritual journeys. We have talked about compasses, maps, flashlights, [...]

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At NCC, we have built our small groups on the idea that God has called all of us to make disciples. We do not have a rigid structure or a homoegenous system. Rather, we want to ignite peoples’ passion for God and then get out of their way. So every small group leader is encouraged [...]

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Vision and Strategy

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

I just finished listening to a Willow Creek Spiritual Formation seminar. Ruth Barton said something that I loved:
“Vision without planning is daydreaming.” 
We have a lot of visionaries at NCC. In fact, I think every member of our team is a big vision-caster. Myself included. That’s why we need to start developing strategies and systems (see [...]

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