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Vision, Momentum, and You.                                important as a strong

                                                                  commitment to the process is.
        Pastor Joe Garnett

               Have you ever noticed that                                It is easy with all the

        when God gives you a vision                               excitement to grab the vision and
        there is an excitement that comes                         run, but is that the best way to

        with it? It may not even be your                          maintain momentum and
        vision, it may be the vision of the                       achieve success, or does it just

        church given to you from your                             create burnout?
        pastor, but there's still an                                     If we are not careful vision

        excitement about it that                                  drift can happen. Slowly and

        transforms into momentum.                                 quietly, we can forget why they

               Now you have vision and                            are doing what that are doing.

        now you have the momentum but                             Others may come around and
        what do we have to do to keep                             join in our vision while secretly

        that going, why do we lose                                having their own agenda
        momentum, and how do we get it                            attempting to destroy our vision.

        back.                                                            When we forget why we do


               Momentum is a great tool                           what we do, we eventually lose
        but unfortunately and sadly too                           our passion. We should

        many times as we begin a                                  constantly remind ourselves and
        project, we begin to lose that                            those that serve with us why we

        momentum. And sometimes it                                are here and cheer each other on.
        can become a tragedy in the fact                          Passion and urgency must be

        that we never regain it, and we                           ever present to maintain

        give up on the vision.                                    momentum. We must speak with
                                                                  passion and conviction. People
               Momentum has a                                     need to hear our voice and see it

        psychological effect. It is exciting                      in our eyes. We can’t
        to be begin fulfilling the vision                         manufacture it. We can't fake it.

        God gave us.  And while creating                          It must come from inside out.
        momentum makes achieving

        your goal quicker and easier,                                    Another area that can
        those fast starts are not as                              hinder momentum or destroy

                                                                  momentum is when leadership
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