On “Vision Casting”

This isn’t a stand-alone article. I was simply posting the audio from Sunday School for my church. The “vision casting” dig was a humorous aside about (1) the stupidity of re-naming common sense leadership functions things to sound cool, and (2) how we don’t need to spend time pondering what our mission is - Peter told us what our individual and collective purpose is - to be holy priests for God.

This isn’t an article about “vision casting.” It’s a silly, deliberate sarcastic take on a contemporary trend that I personally find especially stupid. The real point is the audio. Jim posted this; not me! :)

My take on why it’s obnoxious is that if we call it “vision casting”, that implies the pastor has had a vision (kinda like in this song by Arlo Guthrie), and that in turn implies some kind of prophetic mantle on the part of the pastor, and that the congregation really has no choice, if they’re spiritually minded, to swallow that pickle subscribe to the pastor’s vision and plan.

Unless indeed we cessationists are wrong, and the pastor does indeed have this prophetic gift, it’s an intrinsically manipulative, abusive tactic. Pastors who try this need to humble themselves and go back to the Word of God.

And I don’t want a pickle. I just wanna ride on my motor bicycle.

I’d just like to say that article was…. da bomb!

Word, Bro. Golden.