Vision

As a leader I find myself in a position to constantly think from a position of vision. What do I want to lead? How do I feel I should lead? Where am I trying to go? How will we get there? What will it look like when we arrive?

There are some quotes that float around the edges of my thinking on leadership.

"Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell. I wish to run a rescue mission a yard from Hell." CT Studd. That sounds cavalier, but it feels right.

I really like in Acts 11 where the new to town, founders of the Antioch church in essence said,
"I don't know if these Greeks can be saved, but let's take Jesus to them and see."

I did have one pastor friend quote a pastor he spoke to as defining ministry as "seeing that people keep coming to church." ~ If the context is winning = keeping everyone here 'here' I wouldn't sign off on that.

What should be the vision of church?