Vision Casting

 

Hello this Multiply, a podcast to encourage village church planters and leaders. I am Brad Snowden. Today we are looking at vision casting. VCP’s vision is to have a church in every village in Africa by 2050. This is a powerful statement or vision because it lines up with God’s word so perfectly. The great commission and the great teaching of Jesus in Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus said to him, “you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”   

If we love the Lord in this way then we will find it easy to share Him with others and if we love our neighbors then  we will want to share with them what God has done in our lives. If we love them in Christ then we will certainly want them to grow spiritually in his word and this is  discipleship. The fulfillment of the VCP vision shines a light upon the necessity of the multiplication factor. We must cast the vision as Jesus did for His disciples. Jesus made disciples and disciple makers at the same time. It takes on a different mindset and a little more work but the multiplication factor will be great. If we disciple disciple-makers then they will do the same and thus the number of church planters will grow in great numbers thus fulfilling the VCP vision as well as God’s word. This can be done by casting the vision, and with God’s word this becomes the powerful tool God  planned it to be. We must be followers of Christ walking in faith and not by sight. For the natural eye would say “wow look around there are villages everywhere how can this be done”?  It takes faith in the Lord because we cannot do this alone. Jesus said in Matthew 19:26 “with man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible”

 If I wanted to clear a field for planting and there were big stones in the field I could try to do it myself and not accomplish the task at hand or I could find someone to help move these huge stones out of the way so the planting could be done. We must continually ask for God’s help to accomplish this vision that he has birthed in us.  He won’t just step in and do it, but we can ask for His help and He will strengthen His people to accomplish His plan. I would like to encourage you to disciple disciple-makers, and in teaching them the Lord can use them to be church planters and then we must send them out. It will happen, God will work in all this and the vision will become reality. We serve a God who can do the impossible through His people and we simply have to use what he gives us. Vision casting is simply sharing what God has challenged our faith in and he gives us the  solution in order to accomplish the vision He has given. We can see with God’s help that through disciple-makers making disciple-makers the vision of a church in every African village by 2050 can be accomplished. We can see God at work to accomplish his plan through each one of us. This has been a word of encouragement for village church planters.

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