LRP Revisited

The conversation continues about a long range planning committee that is to meet on October 2. How we will proceed is to be discussed. Some have suggested a change in committee name. Perhaps it would be more accurate to call it a vision task force for the planning really comes after the vision is cast. This task force would lead the congregation in the process of hearing God’s Spirit to speak to us. However, we know that “the road is hard that leads to life.” Matthew 7:14. Birth always involves pain. Change always brings stress. The task of leaders is to watch for God’s new creation to emerge instead of being caught up in conflict and compromise and to remember that “where there is no vision, the people perish.” Proverbs 29:18.