Re:Vision: The Key to Transforming Your Church

by Aubrey Malphurs

Twenty-four Discoveries Insight 1: Re-envisioning pastors are passionate and visionary. They have a clear vision and cast it well. Insight 2: More often than not, re-envisioners have a mentor or coach who supplies wisdom and counsel to help them through the good times as well as guide them in the difficult times. Insight 3: Renewal pastors have good people skills and thus get along and work well with people. Insight 4: Re-envisioning pastors tend to be more innovational than traditional. Insight 5: Turnaround pastors seem to have more energy to expend on ministry than the NREPs. Insight 6: Re-envisioners are young in ministry, regardless of their chronological age. Insight 7: Pastors who revitalize churches are good team players. They get along well with people (see Discovery 3) and work well with them on teams. Insight 8: Re-envisioning pastors are delegators. They realize that they can’t re-envision churches alone. They know that if they fail to delegate the re-envisioning process, it won’t happen. Insight 9: Turnaround pastors are good at training new leaders. They realize that leadership is the hope of the church—everything rises or falls with leadership. Thus they are committed to leader development. Insight 10: Revitalizers are focused and determined. They realize what is most important, focus on that, and push until it gets done. Insight 11: Turnaround pastors embrace necessary change and are willing to pay the price that change brings with it. Insight 12: Re-envisi...

********** Great profile on turn around re-envisioning pastors