I don’t know how to frame my thoughts about our annual leadership retreat. It was the best yet. But most of my thoughts are what I would call sixth sense thoughts. Tough to put a finger on what I’m feeling but here goes.

First of all, I’m so grateful for a gifted team, but I’m far more grateful for our team chemistry. There is an amazing synergy. Love doing life and doing ministry with our staff and leaders @ NCC.

There is more energy and more excitement @ NCC than we’ve ever had. And we’re dreaming bigger dreams. But it’s not just vision in a vacuum. I think early in the life cycle of a church you have vision but there isn’t much weight to it. Why? Because there isn’t a track record. The more history you have the more vision you ought to have. Why? Because it’s the faithfulness of God in the past that gives us faith for the future. God has delivered time and again at NCC. And it’s our responsibility to keep dreaming God-sized dreams. In a nutshell, our team is maturing. I think the vision is maturing. I think we’re maturing spiritually. There is a gravitas to the vision.

If our leadership retreat is any indication of what God is going to do in 2010, look out.