Duffy Robbins says, Vision is the absolute essential for someone who wants to stay fresh and enthusiastic about youth ministry over the long haul. It is the chief prevention for burn-out. It involves a visual reality, a picture of conditions that do currently exist, that is internalised and personal. B. Preferable Future Vision involves change - stretching reality to extend beyond what presently exists. To create a better situation in which to minister leaders cannot simply hope that the future will be better, but must take control over their environment and with God s empowerment and direction create a better future.
Vision focuses on thinking ahead rather than on dwelling upon, or seeking to replicate, the past.
So the way to success in ministry is to focus on God and to be fully committed to His vision for ministry. C. God Imparted Vision for ministry is a reflection of what God wants to accomplish through people in building His kingdom. While God allows leaders latitude and creativity to articulate, disseminate and implement the vision, they receive their vision for ministry from God. D. Chosen Servants Leadership is crucial within the church, and God has gifted certain individuals to serve as leaders. It is to these people that He entrusts the precious gift of vision.