The biggest mistake I’ve made as a pastor is failing to cast a clear vision during the early years of our ministry. Here is why I say that. When we were 300-500 members people would often tell me, that they love Eagles Nest because it is the perfect size. They liked knowing everyone and everyone knowing them. Then we started growing rapidly. We went from one service to two services to three services. We went from hundreds of members to thousands of members. I was so excited about the growth, but a lot of our more established members complained because they no longer saw people they knew. They said they liked the old Eagles Nest better. In addition, we had to make a lot of changes in our processes and personnel to accommodate the growth. So, although things changed for the better, I found out that a lot of people don’t like change. But part of a leaders job is to prepare people for change - and I didn’t do that well.