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Good Morning, Over the next few weeks, we are going to be starting a new short series, entitled VISION 20/20.

I believe this series is going to prime us and prepare us for what lies ahead in 2020.. and beyond...

We are going to be asking some interrogative questions about our Vision, Mission and purpose as a local church…

Re-shape our Our future refocus our Purpose and sharpen our Vision

I believe this series is going to prime us and prepare us for what lies ahead in 2020.. and beyond...

One of my goals is help us move from what is sometimes obscure and complex…to something that we definable practical and unusable…

We age to be asking some interrogative f questions about our Vision, Mission and purpose as a local church… One of my goals is to move us from what sometimes the obscure or the complex…and break it down to just the essentials… so that we can have some clarity....

Vision is always about what lies in front of us… It speaks of a preferred future....it deals in what ought to be and what should be... Our vision or lack of vision is what ultimately shapes our lives…

One of the mistakes we can make is undervaluing Vision...

My Goal is to move from what is sometimes the obscure or the complex…and break it down to just the essentials… so that we can have some clarity....

move us from what sometimes the obscure and complex…and hopefully break it down to just the essentials… so that we can have some clarity....

We can take vision for granted… for example consider our physical sight…

When you stop and consider ho incredible !!.

Good Morning, Over the next few weeks, we are going to be starting a mini series, entitled VISION 20/20.

I believe this series is going to prime us and prepare us for ministry into 2020.. and beyond.

The title is a play on words as we are just a couple of months away from 2020…

Sometimes we take our vision for granted… but our physical sight is something pretty incredible..

Our physical sight is something pretty incredible..

The only organ more complex than the eye is the brain… In fact it is not actually our eyes that allows us to see.. Our eyes are simply the lense… The lense that conveys messages sent from the brain via the optic nerve!

We need to revisit our vision because the world we are living in is always changing…

Did you know that the eyes themselves are not what actually allows us to see?

They are simply a lense… a conveyance for messages sent from the brain via the optic nerve!

The Eye is amazing...

The Eye is amazing…

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10 million different colors.It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.Ommatophobia is a fear of the eyes.80

percent of all learning comes through the eyes.Your eyes can detect a candle flame 1.7 miles away.Your iris (the colored part of your eye) has 256 unique characteristics; your fingerprint has just 40.Heterochromia is the medical term for having two different colored eyes.Only 1/6 of your eyeball is visible.Your eyes are comprised of rods and cones.

Rods allow you to see shapes, while cones are responsible for detecting and deciphering colors.The average person blinks 12 times a minute (bet you just blinked!).The shark cornea is nearly identical to the human cornea, and has even been used in human eye surgery!Your eye is the fastest contracting muscle in the body, contracting in less than 1/100th of a second.The optic nerve contains more than one million nerve cells.

Your eyes can distinguish approximately 10 million different colors.

Your eyes focus on 50 different objects every second.

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

80 % of all learning comes through the eyes.

Your eyes can detect a candle flame 1.7 miles away.

Your iris (the colored part of your eye) has 256 unique characteristics; your fingerprint has just 40.

Heterochromia is the medical term for having two different colored eyes.

Only 1/6 of your eyeball is visible.Your eyes are comprised of rods and cones.

Your eye is the fastest contracting muscle in the body, contracting in less than 1/100th of a second.

The average person blinks 12 times a minute (bet you just blinked!).

Your eye is the fastest contracting muscle in the body, contracting in less than 1/100th of a second.

Your eye is the fastest contracting muscle in the body, contracting in less than 1/100th of a second.

The eye is pretty amazing…specially when it’s function with 20/20 vision.

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Over the last 20 years my vision has changed slightly but just enough that I need a new prescription every couple of years.. this is one test you want to get right… My goal is for sharpness and clarity…

The term 20/20 is used to describe normal vision or eyesight… 20/20 speaks of clarity or sharpness of vision… If you have 20/20 vision you can see clarity from the distance of 20 feet…

But what happens when our vision is inhibited?

What happens when you are short sighted?

It impacts what you see ahead of you…

How Clear is your vision of the future?

How do the next 6 months to 12 months look?

Can think in terms of five years to a decade?

The only way to fix the problem is through corrective lenses....

there all kinds of things that can hinder our vision…

Even when our vision

It impacts what you see ahead of you… The only way to fix the problem is through corrective lenses....

These are important questions to address..

But what happens when our Spiritual vision is inhibited?

What needs to happen to compensate…to correct and clarify your vision...

We need to take similar measures or tools to bring correction.

Just like our physic

A Quick test on Vision is to Ask yourself… where you see yourself in the next 6 months to 12 months?

How do the next 6 months to 12 months look?

Can think in terms of five years to a decade?

How about the next five years or decade?

What causes fuzziness of Vision is not knowing our Purpose…

I was just listening to Francis Chan giving a talk at a Chapel service at Azusa Pacific University..He made kind of a big announcement that is moving his family back to Asia… When he was in Myanmar he saw how hungry people were for the Gospel..

He basically said that His calling is about Fishing for men… Evangelism… And he basically explained that there is great opportunity for the Gospel right now in Asia… He simply following his purpose...

We have to ask the Hard Questions… What is our Purpose?

Why do we exist as a church?

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This morning we are Going to be asking the question of the Purpose of the Church.... Why the Church Exists?

Today businesses like Amazon, Apple, Google… seem to dominate the financial world.. Back in the 1800’s it was the railroads.

Trains dominated the transportation industry of the United States, moving both people and goods throughout the country.

Unless clarify our Purpose we are going to have no way of reaching our go

prepare us for 2020.

My hope that this Series will be course altering....

When it comes to

My hope that this Series will be course altering..

That we will allow the Holy Spirit to breathe upon this Word and bring clarity and sharpen our Focus…for us specifically as a church..

Unless we can really nail down with some clarity the churches Purpose --- We are going to find ourselves floundering…and spinning our wheals… We will never know whether we are actually making progress or not…

We shape Our future through Clarifying our Purpose and sharpening Vision

Trains dominated the transportation industry of the United States, moving both people and goods throughout the country

for us specifically as a church..

This morning I want to talk about the importance of Clarifying our Purpose…

We need to why we Exist...

Having Purpose Dose not mean that you are adding Activities..

ely easy.

◦ All he needed was a score of 8.1 or more and he would have taken the gold medal...Which for an Olympic Athlete like Emmon's would be (cake) relatively easy.

◦ Emmon's however, made a huge Mistake... Standing in lane two, he fired at the target in lane three.

He had an excellent shot and hit the target perfectly but it was at the wrong target...

◦ What we learn from Emmons is that it doesn't matter how accurate you are if you are aiming at the wrong target... it still a miss.

What we are focus upon really

Here is the thing we can have a lot of good and well and good goals, but if we shooting at the wrong target we are going to

John Maxwell tells this story… of a lighthouse keeper who worked on a rocky stretch of coastline.

We are living in an ever changing world and the Church at large is facing huge challenges....

There is an old story about a lighthouse keeper who worked on a rocky stretch of coastline.

Once a month he would receive a new supply of oil to keep the light burning so that ships could safely sail near the rocky coast.

We are living in an ever changing world and the Church at large is facing huge challenges....

If we concentrate and focus that light even more, it becomes a laser that will cut through sheet metal.

As light becomes more powerful as it is brought into focus, so the church becomes more effective as it clearly defines whom it is trying to reach.

Once a month he would receive a new supply of oil to keep the light burning so that ships could safely sail near the rocky coast.

61% said Churches have too many problems

48 % I don’t have the time