The lead pastor at Turning Point Community Church, Pastor John Wagner serves as the primary communicator and visionary dedicated to helping others love God and people. In this role, Pastor John Wagner leverages a wide range of communicative and teaching skills, including vision casting, to help his congregation understand the word of God.

1. BASIC STEPS FOR
EFFECTIVELY VISION
CASTING AS A PASTOR
By Pastor John Wagner

2. Introduction
 The lead pastor at Turning Point Community
Church, Pastor John Wagner serves as the
primary communicator and visionary dedicated to
helping others love God and people. In this role,
Pastor John Wagner leverages a wide range of
communicative and teaching skills, including
vision casting, to help his congregation
understand the word of God.
Oftentimes, creating and writing up your vision for
the church is the easiest part of putting a plan into
motion; vision casting is typically more
challenging. To ensure you effectively vision cast
as a pastor, there are four basic steps to follow.

3. Basic Steps
 1. Clarity: before you can communicate your
vision, you must understand it clearly yourself and
make sure the vision is not illogical. Writing out
the vision can be very helpful for checking its
clarity because it gives you something to actually
look over.
2. Compelling: it’s important that your vision is
something that will compel your congregation to
act. When casting the vision, be strong and help
members own the vision themselves. This
increases motivation and ensures your
congregation members fully understand what they
must do.

4. Conclusion
 3. Concise: an overly complicated vision makes
communicating very difficult. Your congregation
needs to understand every part of the vision you
have, so keep things as concise as possible to
prevent any confusion. This also makes it easier
for members to share the vision with others.
4. Concrete: having a tangible vision is very
helpful when it comes to vision casting. Initiatives
cannot be spiritualized if you want your vision to
be received and understood by the congregation.
Help everyone become engaged in the vision and
help them feel how you do about the ultimate
goal.