They like security. I think a secure and financially plush congregation is on the road to ruin. They don't want to do anything new or try anything that involves risk. I am constantly looking for dreams to be realized, new horizons to be striven for. So the dreamer gets on the people's nerves.
Dreamers are lonely, and never content, though they press on.
Thank God I am not alone in this congregation or I'd have been run out of town long ago. Thank God there are dreamers who dare to dream, who dare to reach, who dare to break with the conventional and the safe and venture out into the unknown with vision. It is the living of life in the face of disappointment, failure and set back that marks the dreamer's faith. It could be argued that dreamers today are replaced by project managers. The systems people take over and move from the genesis to the culmination of the project.