Loved Andy Stanley’s session at Exponential. He talked about how to make vision stick. Here are the five vision principles he shared:

1) Make it simple

Boil it down to an irreducible minimum. Andy cited the One Campaign’s vision statement as an example: make poverty history.

Andy also shared Northpoint’s vision: to create a church that unchurched people love to attend.

2) Cast it Convincingly

3) Repeat it Regularly

“Vision leaks.” As your church gets larger, you need more vision and you need to share it more frequently. One of the unique challenges we face at NCC is our turnover rate. 44% of NCCers have attended less than one year. So we need to communicate vision more consistently.

4) Celebrate it Systematically

“Stories do more to clarify and illustrate vision than anything else.”

5) Embrace it Personally and Publicly