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Over the last couple of months, I have been thinking through vision and mission. I’ve prayed, read a good bit and had a lot of conversations, but it just never came into focus until last week. I was visiting a friend who said that a vision statement is a broad goal that is only attainable as God enters in and does it. This made real sense to me. Then I learned that one’s mission is a bit more ‘how’ oriented… that is, ‘how’ we seek to achieve the vision. This helped so much. It was like the camera came into focus. It was the ‘aha’ moment. Now, after several months, I am really beginning to understand more clearly the details of what my new calling is. I am looking with fresh eyes at the broad vision of what God wants to do.
With that in the back of my mind, I thought about the Hebrew Prophets and all thier talk about justice, these are like God’s vision statements. And I read the Great Commision several times last week, I saw it as a kind of vision statement: “go into all the world.”
Each of us needs to own that vision as followers of Jesus…. watching the Jesus Film last Friday, it occured to me during the scenes where He called the disciples, “Come, follow me” He said. That is my mission statement – to follow Jesus, into all the world.

This is a video from TED, you might learn more about TED as a place to listen to the ideas of others. This one is all time great UCLA basketball coach John Wooden… toward the end he begins to ramble about some bball specifics and that may not be the most compelling, but there is a point toward the middle (beginning at the 9:40 mark) when he talks about doing our best that is really worth the watch… enjoy and be reminded of some stuff you probably already knew…

two posts on the email and blog circuit that, since I really haven’t much to say, I will weigh in on… there the first is a dance act which was good… well, look HERE… think about the comment at the beginning about chasing the dream not the competition… I wasn’t so excited by the dancing, but that comment was amazing… 

but there is another, that is AMAZING, I actually heard about this this morning early as they talked about it on BBC radio, this one, will… well… just WATCH HERE and cheer for the underdog… oh, watch Simon’s face change…

don’t judge too quickly.

goin travelin Sunday evenin through Wednesday… riding with HRH Irene to NOVA, winding up in Philly via the rails of Amtrak Tuesday and retuning to the ‘ville on Wed. night… if I don’t post keep your eye on revtomtwitters (to your right) for thoughts and updates…

Christ is RISEN!!!! One day we, too will rise!!!