I went to another Vineyard leaders meeting this last weekend. I love the people. That’s the only reason I go, to be honest. I get so tired of the ceaseless talk about vision, vision forming, vision casting, vision keeping, blah blah blah. I am against vision. Call me an idiot! I don’t care. I told everyone in my small group, after all the talk about vision, that I personally resist vision with as much passion as those who believe in it. I get the usual quote: “Without a vision, the people perish.” I don’t believe it. Today, people perish with vision. Besides, the original language of that passage (Proverbs 29: 18) doesn’t mean “vision” as in a corporate long-term goal. It means “revelation”. In other words, without hearing from God, the people perish. It is truth we need. Not another vision, PLEASE!

I’ve created and tried to sustain vision in the past, as well as press its importance on the church. And I’ve seen those visions crush people and myself, especially when the vision is destroyed and proven empty. Friends say, “Well, then get a better vision!” No! I learned my lesson right away: vision kills. I refuse to try to create vision or vision cast or get the community to shape one and pursue it. Why? Because it kills what is. It murders life.

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