Spiritual Strategy

I've been struggling with how strategic thinking within the church can get so corporate.

I DO BELIEVE we can learn from the business world.

But, recently, involved in some leadership training I've felt like the God-part was a little weak.

I read this encouraging trend about how pastors are not fulfilled making strategic choices without it being God-centered first.

Read it from Will Mancini HERE

TREND #4: Visioning and Spiritual Formation as Disciplines will Merge More Visibly

True visioning in the local church should always be a Spirit-led, Word-anchored exercise of daily spiritual formation. One consultant, George Bullard, years ago coined the phrase, “The Spiritual Strategic Journey” which I have always loved. But it is easy to separate the strategic and the spiritual in daily practice. Every year, more Auxano clients express direct appreciation for the fact that our consultants (we call ourselves navigators) are pastors first, with a theological training and a Godward impulse. In the future there will be little tolerance for strategic conversations and visioning exercises that aren’t first God-worshipping and God-listening initiatives. Church leaders are tired of anything in the name of vision that smacks of corporate ideology.