God Dreams Quotes

“Questions of implementation are of no consequence until the vision can be imagined. The imagination must come before implementation. Our culture is competent to implement almost anything and to imagine almost nothing. —Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann”
― Will Mancini, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future

“Our heart is made to live in a larger story; having lost that, we do the best we can by developing our own smaller dramas. Look at the things people get caught up in: sports, politics, soap operas, rock bands. Desperate for something larger to give our lives transcendence, we try to lose ourselves in the smallest kind of stories.”
― Will Mancini, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future

“God wants to do something cosmically significant and locally specific through your church.”
― Will Mancini, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future

“The easiest way to kill your long-range dream is to make sure the finance committee never hears about it and thus never builds it into the budget.”
― Will Mancini, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future

“Vision dripping is more important than vision casting.”
― Will Mancini, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. —Author and lecturer Mark Twain”
― Will Mancini, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future

“Problem casting precedes vision casting.”
― Will Mancini, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future

“the failure to solve a problem is the number one reason people do not wake up to the vision. It’s the primary factor that keeps vision powerless. Here is the single best-kept secret”
― Will Mancini, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future

“A template is something you can choose to use and then adapt or combine; it accelerates your start but doesn’t limit your art.”
― Will Mancini, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future

“Most pastors, as I have observed them, will spend more time on preaching preparation for the next month than on vision preparation for the next five years.”
― Will Mancini, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future

“Scripture establishes the wisdom of planning as a God-dependent, assessment-based collaborative process for seasonal rhythms and special reasons.”
― Will Mancini, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future

“It’s been said that vision without execution is a daydream, and execution without vision is a nightmare.”
― Will Mancini, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future

“Think about it: God’s doesn’t stand in heaven with a photocopy machine every time a local church is started. Your church was born an original; don’t let it become a carbon copy on your watch.”
― Will Mancini, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future

“God doesn’t do generic. There is no such thing as a generic sunset, a generic snowflake, or a generic human being. Likewise there should be no such thing as a generic church or a generic future.”
― Will Mancini, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future

“Because God is a visionary and human beings are visionaries in His image, the idea of vision becomes a powerful and practical thing to our daily lives. When we walk with God, two visionaries are walking and talking, cocreating a better future.”
― Will Mancini, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future

“Genesis started with a marriage in a perfect garden between Adam and Eve; Revelation will end with a perfect marriage reimagined beyond our imaginations, between God and humanity.”
― Will Mancini, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future

“If you were ever excited about something that’s yet to be, then you are a visionary.”
― Will Mancini, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future

“vision serves everyone, every day. It’s fun and makes us better. And it is always continuing and unfolding.”
― Will Mancini, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future

“But what if this limitation—being constrained within time—actually creates exciting possibilities?”
― Will Mancini, God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future