"I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past."
Thomas Jefferson
G. Hamel, in his book, Leading the Revolution, notes that leaders are possibility thinkers, not probability thinkers. Probabilities must be based upon evidence strong enough to establish presumption. Possibilities are not. All new ventures begin with possibility thinking, not probability thinking. After all, the probability is that most new businesses will fail and most social reforms will never get off the ground. If entrepreneurs or activists accepted this view, they would never start a new business or organize a community. Instead, they begin with the assumption that anything is possible. Like entrepreneurs and other activists, leaders assume that anything is possible. It is this belief that sustains them through the difficult times.
God’s leaders should see the possibilities that God has in store for us. In order to do so, we must rise above the minutia of the day-to-day and look for possibilities of the future. Otherwise, we are stuck in the present, in the way we have always done it, and because we have never done it that way before, we stick to what we know. Meanwhile, we sit in wonder of other organizations that are growing, developing and doing new and innovative ministries.
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. Isaiah 43:19
Let us dare to dream: dare to think all things possible; and dare to live life accordingly.
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