Visionary Leadership

For Saturday, February 26, 2022

Proverbs 29:18a KJV: “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

Visionary leadership is sharing intuition about the future. If the leader of an organization, in this case a church, can visualize and communicate where it should be next year, in 3 years, in 5 years, then the steps to get there will make sense and may even become obvious.

Visionary leadership is peeking into the future and believing it could be so. Steve Jobs of Apple is a great example of just such a visionary. His company already had a successful iPod. He reasoned that if you could combine that with a phone and then make the whole thing go on the internet, a lot of people would want one. So far almost 3 billion iPhones have been sold!

Jesus commissioned us to make disciples of all nations, to take Christianity to the world. Calling and equipping the next generation of visionary leaders will bring us closer to that goal.

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship, 3249 30th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55406

Together!

For Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Acts 1:14 NIV: “The believers all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.”

At the time, it appeared that things weren’t going well for the Christians. Their main man, Jesus, had recently been crucified. He rose from the dead to walk among them, but then ascended into heaven leaving his friends behind. The Romans were out to get them. The Pharisees were out to get them. It wasn’t easy being a Christian in the 1^st century.

Their 2 choices would have been to abandon the entire project, or – what they actually did – pray together, add additional converts, and grow the church into a force that could not be ignored! It took a few centuries, but eventually even Roman Emperors were firm believers!

Over the years, our nation has drifted farther from God. We’d be better off reversing that trend, and that begins with building up the local church. Invite someone new. Let them hear the Good News about Jesus!

Together the believers had hope!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship, 3249 30th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55406