Instead this is an honest and very personal sharing of hopes and visions. To be clear, this is not a prophetic “God’s dream” for the church. Discerning that is the work a pastor and the church leaders do together. This “I Have a Dream” speech is simply the pastor articulating the power of dreaming. When a pastor shares his or her dream for what God could do in and through them, the congregation begins to realize that they too can dream, that God speaks to the whole community, that it is a sign of the movement of the Spirit when “your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, / your old men shall
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