Great Vision Creates Liminality

I enjoyed reading these thoughts from Alan Hirsch on the power of future vision to shape the present.  Using his language, a bold future vision contributes to liminality, or an out of balance state, which in turn creates a response of individuals and communities toward missional engagement.

This post is worth a read (and his whole blog, for that matter):

The Future and the Shaping of Things to Come pt.I : The Forgotten Ways.