Execute Your Vision by Easum Bill;Musselman Scott;

Author:Easum, Bill;Musselman, Scott;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2016-08-22T00:00:00+00:00

Learning to Develop Intuition

It should be clear by now that traditional thinking and acting aren’t going to give us the results we seek. We have to first know the facts. Then once we’ve gathered the data, we take action based on our best guess—we’re back to the foundational leadership quality of intuition.

Just like skills, intuition can be developed. And just like with skills, some people will develop intuition better than others. In both cases, if a person doesn’t work on them, they don’t improve. Our experience with pastors is that they are some of the least intuitive people. However, it may not be fully their fault.

The primary reason pastors have trouble with developing intuition is the way we have been taught to learn or, should we say, taught not to learn. Most ministerial education today is the teacher talks and the students diligently listen while taking copious notes.

There is a name for this kind of learning—it’s called “passive learning.” Passive learning doesn’t teach us how to analyze. We learn the facts, but not what they mean to our everyday life. That’s why, in this book, you have been asked several times to stop reading and reflect. People learn more about what works by doing rather than by hearing or reading.

Case in point: why do you think Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to follow their vision? They intuitively believed that their dreams were more important than a Harvard education.

Sixteen years ago, I (SM) had this nagging gut feeling that I was supposed to pursue a program at the Wagner Leadership Institute in Colorado Springs, a Spirit-driven seminary that would be outside what had been my comfort zone. C. Peter Wagner started this institution in his senior years because he wanted to develop an educational program that used a style other than the one he had utilized previously at Fuller Seminary.

I’ll be honest. I hated to speak spontaneous prayers. That’s not good when you are a pastor. I felt my unscripted prayers sounded stilted. I had no idea why God seemed to want me to go to this institution. But I went nonetheless.

The learning practice was far different than that of my past. What I came away with was a powerful new sense of prayer that now drives all of my life. These people didn’t teach me to pray. They put me in an experience where I was mentored to become the person of prayer God wanted. So, especially at a time when the questions are many and the answers seem few, we encourage you to step out of your comfort zone for the sake of Jesus. This leads us to the issue of how well you are applying the lessons in this book.

Our bet is most of you didn’t stop reading and reflect on the questions. So you will get to the end of the book and have your head full of information, but you still may not be better prepared to turn a vision into reality. Have you done the exercises so far? If not, we encourage you to go back and do them now.

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