When a vision is framed as something that is achievable within a set amount of years, then it falls into the terrain of a strategic plan. That is why the overwhelming majority of organizational visions fail to deliver the impact: they are rational, time-bound and highly impersonal.
You should be asking “Why do too many organizational transformation initiatives fail?”
One source argued that finally, too many transformation initiatives fail to focus on development of the capabilities required for people to be successful in the new organization. This is a mistake for two reasons. First, organizational transformation always alters the nature of “the work” that must be done.
What happens when a company has no vision?
I’ve also consulted with dozens of companies regarding their brand and strategy, and inevitably vision comes up as one of the most powerful elements of growth and impact. Without a vision, the people perish. – Proverbs 29:18 Here are some simple observations on where a vision commonly goes off the rails, and what to do about it.
A sixth reason why mission and statements often don’t work as well as they could is that they sometimes lose touch with reality. I don’t mean in terms of abstraction (Reason 4) or trying to be overly nice (Reason 5), but in terms of how realistic the mission and vision are given where an organization currently is.
You might be thinking “What is the value of a vision?”
God loves people more than anything, so if your vision does not improve God’s most important treasure then your vision is worth very little. My question is if your vision gets fulfilled today apart from your family and you, who and who would also benefit from it. The true worth of a vision is in the magnitude of its beneficiaries.
Are all visions from God’s will?
The dramatic vision led to his conversion to Christianity. Nevertheless, Scripture is equally clear that all visions are not from God. Some are from the vain imaginings of individuals and some are clearly demonic. False visions lead people away from God’s will and frequently into idolatry.
The Spirit of God reveals what God is saying to the church. On the other hand, the interpretation of dreams and visions do not come through the Spirit of God in the same sense as the gifts. Dreams and visions are not part of the gifts of the Spirit. That is why it is not mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12.
The key truth is that if God were to give a vision, it would agree completely with what He has already revealed in His Word. Visions should never be given equal or greater authority than the Word of God.
A frequent query we ran across in our research was “What are visions and dreams in the Bible?”.
This was confirmed by Peter in Acts 2. As a point of clarity, a vision is when someone is awake, as opposed to a dream given by God when they are asleep.
Are visions a common part of a Christian’s experience?
God can grant visions to people today and possibly does so around the world. When we examine the Bible, we see that visions from God were a rarity. We should probably then expect God to grant visions on rare occasions today.
The vision of Jesus. God’s kingdom was coming to replace the authority of all earthly kingdoms. And it was beginning immediately.
There doesn’t seem to be any particular type of person that is prone to have visions of Jesus, and Wiebe believes that “Christic visions are evidentially more common than is ordinarily believed”. None of the naturalistic explanations seems capable of fully explaining them, though that may perhaps change with further research.
Perhaps because we are living in the end times, we are receiving more and more reports of Dreams and visions of Jesus. There are various meanings to these dreams, but many times it is simply His way of saying to an individual, “I am here, and I love you!”.