The Church…Not an Institution, but a Movement
It seems like every day I read another note written to one of our pastors about the new vision. Here is a portion of a note received this week:
All I can say is WOW what a vision, I feel very blessed to be part of this church. Your pastoral leadership team is truly amazing. Never have I seen a team so relaxed, dedicated and more sure of their calling as what you have put together. The level of intelligence is mind blowing and the vision is huge, you can truly feel the confidence each and every one of you holds deep in your hearts that God has put this all together…We are on board 100% and make available all of our support for anything that we can do to help. We know there is no doubt that God has amazing things in store for GCC.
We have presented the vision to many of our core leaders–about 900 of them over the past week. Now this weekend we begin to talk about it with the entire congregation during the Picture This series.
Download your own copy GCC 2016 Vision PDF.
We’ve been asking all our leaders two big questions, so I’ll ask you the same ones: What excites you about the new vision? What fears or concerns do you have?
Posted by Tim Stevens | 14 comments
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Edward
I was honored to be invited and to ask a question (even if "stolen" before I asked).. I was floored by the vision that GCC has and seeing a church (let alone any businesses) that have that kind of methodical planning and a vision for the further expansion of their facilities is amazing.
Combine that with an actual detailed plan to turn an entire focus onto being a missional outward based church like this area has never seen before will bring mind blowing changes to God's kingdom here. Blessed and honored to be on the journey!
Tim Stevens
Edward–glad you are on the journey with us!
Heath
Thank you! Thank You! Thank You! As a new Senior Pastor trying to take the vision God has given me and put it into words this has been a huge help. I am excited about what God is doing at Your church, My church, and most importantly, HIS church.
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GordonG
Thanks for posting this, Tim – and may God bless you as you seek to put it into practice.
tijuanabecky2
Agree, agree, agree. I so love your vision. How do you teach a church how to dream and have a vision? I want to help my home church with this but they are lacking it, it's like I try but they don't seem to understand what vision or dreaming even is or why they should want or care about it. Any ideas?
By the way I really really really love your vision and plans. It's like beyond what I can comprehend, you guys are amazing!
david
Personally, I'd love a dialogue from those that composed this uber vision with David from nakedpastor.com's recent posts on anti-vision in churches.
Tim Stevens
Not sure what you are referring to, but would welcome any discussion.
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Wayne Hedlund
You guys are paving the way for the body of Christ yet again. I so appreciate your commitment to forge a vision that is for the 'church' – that is the body of believers – rather than for an organization. Thanks for 'raising the Bar' for us all!
Prayer Requests
Thanks for offering up this pdf. I can't tell you how helpful I think it will be.
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