Serve Vision or People

The "Naked Pastor" writes:

Vision is incompatible with church community. The vision and mission statement talk is very provocative and tempting. As soon as anyone questions what our purpose is, it has the immediate and alluring aura of imagining, creating and shaping our future. It’s called futuring. And it is very sexy. If you are a business or an influence or lobby group or club or even a charity or anything else, you will need to have a vision and articulate a mission statement. But not a church. People, even believers, must have the freedom to assemble without being required to serve a vision created by the pastor or the leaders or even the collective. Otherwise their personal freedom out of necessity is sublimated. You have a choice: you either serve a vision or you serve people. The church can’t do both.

I would want to add that you can have a vision of where God might be leading the community, BUT that has to be secondary to the goal of growing the quality of community. You can "see" a future in which the church is say 1000 people, but that must never be the primary focus of the church.