In the course FIRST STEPS TO BUSINESS we learned that a vision statement must be clear, concise, memorable, impossible to achieve, we must believe it, it must describe the future and it must involve others.

This morning I read a Vision Statement of a local Church and maybe it is all that. Here is the statement: “TO PRAY, PRAISE, PREACH AND PREPARE ALL GOD’S PEOPLE FOR WORKS OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE.”

The Bible also says: Proverbs 29:18 in the amplified Bible,” Where there is no vision, the people perish;….”

I am so glad to see the words PRAY and PRAISE at the beginning of the Vision Statement. In Acts 16:16-40: “Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God” and things started to happen. Also in Second Chronicles 20:22: “As they began to sing and praise” things began to happen…

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