Pioneering a Church Plant – Vision “Grace to dream”

"the most famous dream in the world was held in the mind of Dr Martin Luther King"

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We need God’s grace to dream big dreams - to lift our eyes beyond what we now see and to start dreaming about what he will do in our town or city. If we only dream about what we might achieve, then our vision will be very small, there- fore we must keep asking God to give us a vision which captures his heart and his purposes for his church in the place we live.
God gave Noah a massive vision to build an ark, but he also gave him very specific dimensions and instructions, so that in his mind Noah could see the finished ark before he had begun. This meant that he could stand against all the ridicule because he knew that one day his dream would become a reality.
Walt Disney had a huge dream but he died before it came to pass. Many thought that this was very sad and said, “if only Walt Disney could have seen Disney World”, but the reply of those who knew him was, “if he had not seen it, we would never have built it.”
Bill Easum says, “Leaders have strong imaginations. Imagination is the ability to see clearly what doesn’t yet exist and to be able to articulate it so that others see it.”1 They “dream and daydream. In their minds and hearts they go places most of us have never thought of and they take us with them.”
Rob Parsons states that “the most famous dream in the world was held in the mind of Dr Martin Luther King. ‘I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.’ His dream inspired millions to make a difference even when a whole world screamed at them, ‘yours is an impossible dream’. But dreams change things – companies, individuals and even societies. God has created us to have dreams.”