Road Maps

Tuesday is pretty much the same schedule every week, featuring prayer meeting, staff meeting and meetings with individual staff. We even went to lunch together today, and three of the guys rode with me to my house to grab some cassette tapes out of the garage.

During staff meeting today we worked - once again - on a new vision statement. This was session number six. We had a problem with our previous mission statement and vision statement being redundant. So we've moved some of our "directional furniture" around and come up with a fresh look at where we're headed. I have to admit that the process is punishing. I wish it were not this way but our problem goes back to three years ago when we did this whole thing for the first time. But the bottom line is that from time to time you've just got to do some tweaking to fine tune what's important in your life or organization. For us this process really is both. We are the Body of Christ, the Church. Being part of the Body is life...and it is also an organization. The old adage says, "If you don't know what you're aiming at you'll hit is every time." Knowing where you're headed whether it be a purpose, values, mission or vision statement is like a road map. Kinda reminds me of another 'map' that is "a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path."