Paul CastelliLead where you’re gifted, serve where you’re needed.

I just finished reading Visoneering by Andy Stanley. It was a great book and a must read for anyone seeking direction for their life, a career change or leading a minisistry.

The book outlines the 20 building blocks for a vision and engineering it’s reality (hence the title visioneering). So here they are:

1. A vision begins as a concern.

2. A vision does not necessarily require immediate action.

3. Pray for opportunities and plan as f you expect God to answer your prayers.

4. God is using your circumstances to positionand prepare you to accomplish his vision for your life.

5. What God originates, he orchestrates.

6. Walk before you talk; investigate before you initiate.

7. Communicate your vision as a solution to a problem that must be addressed immediately.

8. Cast your vision as a solution to a problem that must be addressed immediately.

9. Don’t expect others to take greater risks or make greater sacrifices than you have.

10. Don’t confuse your plans with God’s vision.

11. Visions are refined-they don’t change; plans are revised-they rarely stay the same.

12. Respond to criticism with prayer, rememberance, and if necessary, a revision of the plan.

13. Visions thrive in an environment of unity; they die in an environment of division.

14. Abandon the vision before you abandon your moral authority.

15. Don’t get distracted.

16. There is divine potential in all you envision to do.

17. The end of a God-ordained vision is God.

18. Maintaining a vision requires adherence to a set of core beliefs and behaviors.

19. Visions require constant attention.

20. Maintaining a vision requires bold leadership.

Andy Stanley does a fantastic job unpacking all of these building blocks and really drives home the keys of the making you God given vision a reality.

You can order the book on amazon.