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Experiential Route: Assessment The Four Organizing Principles: A Metaphor! Imagine a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) as a metaphor for the spiritual strategic journey of a congregation. For the most effective spiritual strategic journey, where would you place Vision, Relationships, Programs, and Management in the SUV? Vision would be driving and fueling the forward progress of the SUV. Relationships would be navigating and flavoring the quality of the journey. Programs would be in the back seat behind Relationships providing a system through which the best Relationships could happen. Management would be in the back seat behind Vision providing a managerial infrastructure that empowers Vision. What type of journey results from the situation where Vision is driving and Relationships is navigating? A youthful and active journey. A GlobaLocal mission-focused journey. A journey where the discovery of tomorrow is the focus. A journey where many risks are taken to explore new discipleship frontiers. A journey where people resources are focused on mission rather than maintenance. A journey with a clear vision of the destination, rather than a controlled mission of rediscovery old habitats. A journey with great excitement and increasing joy. For the most effective spiritual strategic journey Vision, Relationships, Programs, and Management are all properly aligned in the SUV. No organizing principles are left at home. All four factors are dominant and being fully expressed. Alignment is the key! Everyone has discovered their positive role in the journey and is expressing it with excitement. What happens when Vision grows weary and needs to takes a nap in the back seat? Who drives? Management drives and moves from empowering the journey to controlling the journey. Vision is not necessarily gone, but is asleep and must have an empowering catalyst to awaken it. What happens when Relationships’ eyes get blurry from constantly reading the digital navigation system? Who navigates? Programs navigates and moves from providing system through which the flavoring of the journey can take place, to institutionalizing a system where the successful fulfillment of Programs becomes the measuring rod for determining the success of the journey. What type of journey results from the situation where Management is driving and Programs is navigating? An aging and passive journey. A self-centered journey. A journey where the recovery of yesterday is the focus. A journey where few if any risks are taken to explore new discipleship frontier. A journey where people resources are focused on maintenance rather than mission. A journey with no vision of the destination, but only a controlled mission of rediscovery old habitats. A journey with little excitement and increasing despair.
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