• Vision (28:10)

    The process of discerning a Vision must begin in the heart of the pastor because it is the role of the shepherd to lead the people. Sometimes priests try to get the people to come up with a vision for their parish. Mostly this results in people describing that they do not know where they need to go. Henry Ford once said, “If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse”. Steve Jobs put it another way: “A lot of people don’t know what they want until you show it to them”. Most people haven’t experienced a mission-oriented parish or the fruits of joyful, invitational discipleship and so it is hard for them to imagine what it might look like. The vision therefore must begin in the heart of the priest. It will undergo a process of honing and crafting as he begins to talk about it with others, so that it can then be shared with and engage the passion of the wider community.
    Vision needs to begin in the heart of the pastor and be written in the hearts of the people.

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