Andy Stanley: Making Vision Stick
- 1:07 PM tonymorganlive - (Andy is going with the “tucked” look today. He went with the “untucked” look yesterday. He’s very versatile.)
- 1:07 PM tonymorganlive - “Vision is that mental picture of what could be and should be.”
- 1:09 PM tonymorganlive - “Leaders like really, really small books.” (That’s true. Publishers haven’t figured that out yet.)
- 1:10 PM tonymorganlive - “State your vision simply.”
- 1:10 PM tonymorganlive - “Memorable is portable.”
- 1:11 PM tonymorganlive - “To make your vision simple, it can’t be complete.”
- 1:13 PM tonymorganlive - Obama’s vision = “Change.”
- 1:15 PM tonymorganlive - “Making vision simple takes a long, long time.”
- 1:18 PM tonymorganlive - “We’re going to create a church that unchurched people love to attend.” = North Point’s original vision
- 1:19 PM tonymorganlive - “We kind of think that all churches should be churches that people like to attend.” (laughter.)
- 1:20 PM tonymorganlive - “We want to make sure they get offended by Jesus, not by everything else we do.”
- 1:21 PM tonymorganlive - “What are you trying to do?”
- 1:22 PM tonymorganlive - “You have to cast vision convincingly.”
- 1:23 PM tonymorganlive - “Your vision needs to be a solution to a problem.”
- 1:24 PM tonymorganlive - “What would go undone if your ministry ceased to exist?”
- 1:26 PM tonymorganlive - “Present the problem. That makes people lean in.”
- 1:27 PM tonymorganlive - “We don’t need another church. We need a different kind of church.”
- 1:28 PM tonymorganlive - “Your vision is a solution to a problem.”
- 1:31 PM tonymorganlive - “You have to explain why and why now.”
- 1:33 PM tonymorganlive - “Repeat vision regularly.”
- 1:35 PM tonymorganlive - (fyi… There are over 100 people watching me take notes live. Too bad I can’t type fast enough to keep up with everything Andy is saying. Sorry.)
- 1:36 PM tonymorganlive - “Celebrate vision systematically. The things that get celebrated get repeated. If you’re a parent, you know this.”
- 1:38 PM tonymorganlive - “Nothing reinvigorates vision like a story.”
- 1:39 PM tonymorganlive - “You can’t argue with a story.”
- 1:42 PM tonymorganlive - ”Where in your world do you celebrate what God has told you to do?”
- 1:42 PM tonymorganlive - “You have to embrace the vision personally. It has to come from your heart. You have to embrace it publicly.”
- 1:46 PM tonymorganlive - “I’ve asked for this to be your lifestyle. I want you to know it’s our lifestyle…and I’ll let you know when it’s not.”
- 1:46 PM tonymorganlive - “New projects, programs and products. New is often a distraction from what’s more important.”
- 1:47 PM tonymorganlive - “Is this an easy, obvious, strategic step toward community?” = how North Point determines whether or not to add something new
- 1:48 PM tonymorganlive - “What are your leaders praying for? That tells you what’s on the leader’s heart.”
- 1:49 PM tonymorganlive - “If there’s no one praying for lost people, that’s a vision issue.”
- 1:53 PM tonymorganlive - “What we’re doing is hard. If it feels like it’s hard, it’s because it’s hard.”
- 1:56 PM tonymorganlive - (Andy is really passionate about challenging and encouraging church leaders.)
- 1:59 PM tonymorganlive - Charles Stanley said this to Andy about the leaders gathered here: “What you are doing is so important.”
- 1:59 PM tonymorganlive - “What you are doing is hard, but what you are doing is important.”
- 1:59 PM tonymorganlive - (Thanks for joining me. Pray for these leaders here.)
Thanks Tony.
Do these conferences from which you tweet ever mention redemption, salvation or go beyond giving honorable mention to Jesus Christ? I hear a lot of Law, very little if any Gospel, and much, much talk about vision, leadership, change, etc. It is almost as if these conference speakers are from a different religion. Are these guys Christians? Do they believe in the “one, catholic, apostolic, and holy Church” or do they worship the idols of leadership, vision, and relevance?