Often, strategic mappers find it necessary to break existing rules. When this is the case, it is essential for the team to agree upon the rules for breaking the rules. The details about how to get to the future are best left as broad and as flexible as possible to allow for the various gifts among the congregation as well as the shifts that are occurring along the crack in history. In an unstable world of random change, strategic planning is an oxymoron. Reflecting on my ministry, I discovered that the most productive periods occurred during those times when we had little or no plan to follow.
Strategic mapping is more unstructured thought than carefully laid out plans.
It is not a science. It is done as one travels. Strategic mappers ask the following questions. Seven mapping steps that can lead to the intersections of the future. Let go of the past and the present and suspend all judgment.