Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?
Vision is a mental picture of what could be, fueled by a passion that it should be.
Why create churches for 50-year-olds and let culture have the students?
What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.
God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.
Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.