In the Spiritual Strategic Journey process that is outlined in Pursuing the Full Kingdom Potential of Your Congregation, a high experience for a congregation is crafting their future story of ministry. That is the most visible and significant product or deliverable of this process.
However, the story is not the thing. Living into the story is the thing. Being the best possible congregation in your context with a clear vision of your full Kingdom potential is the thing. Making obvious progress toward your current and ever-clearer vision of your full Kingdom potential is the thing.
Everything that has happened to this point in your congregation's Spiritual Strategic Journey is a prelude, an introduction, an overture, a prologue, and a preamble. In rural parlance, everything to this point is "fixin' to get ready to commence to begin to start to do something, maybe." Now it is essential to move beyond the narrative story development to decisive action.
Actions involves living into your congregation's story, celebrating the fulfillment of your congregation's future story, regularly updating your congregation's future story, sustaining your congregation's spiritual strategic journey, and perfecting your congregation's spiritual strategic journey.
Are you ready for action, transition, change and transformation? Or, did you just want to talk about it?
