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GOD DREAMS: 12 VISION TEMPLATES FOR FINDING AND FOCUSING YOUR CHURCHS FUTURE By Will Mancini and Warren Bird Nashville, TN: B&H Publishing Group (2016) Paperback version, 261 pages
Mancini, Bird, and the Auxano team offer a useful visionary planning tool in the Horizon Storyline featured in God Dreams. The authors model their value for clearly articulated vision by stating the aim of the book: God Dreams is about visionary leadership in the local church. Specifically, its about articulating a visionary plan in a way thats compelling, measurable, and marked by stunning clarity (p. xix). They first expose the great need for clearly articulated vision. They argue that when a church is pursuing Gods dream for their congregation, they must not settle for a generic, fuzzy vision or fall into the pit of obsessing with now. The rest of the book unfolds a practical tool, the Horizon Storyline, designed for helping leaders achieve visionary planning in their church.
The Horizon Storyline achieves a harmony of accessible simplicity and compelling structure. It is accessible in that a churchs visionary plan can be shared in a single picture that can be sketched on a napkin in two minutes. It places short-term priorities and long-range vision on a single page, within the same frame. It includes...