{"id":4961,"date":"2012-03-28T18:59:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T17:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardlittledale.wordpress.com\/?p=4961"},"modified":"2012-03-28T18:59:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T17:59:44","slug":"vision-starts-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2012\/03\/28\/vision-starts-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Vision starts here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Start small, dream big<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

As a Pastor it has been my privilege to meet some of the world’s most amazing people. I have held hands with those who pass through the threshold of pain in the shoes of faith. I have prayed with those who face every danger up to and including death in order to preach the Gospel. \u00a0I have witnessed time and time again the alchemy of faith which transforms the base metal of suffering into the gold of hope.<\/p>\n

On two occasions I have met people with a visionary zeal of New Testament proportions. One of them was Johan Lukasse, then Director of the Belgian Evangelical Mission. The other was Matthew Frost, Chief Executive of Tearfund<\/a>, whom I met for the first time today. Like Johan Lukasse, this is a man with a loud vision and a soft voice.<\/p>\n

Speaking to a room full of bloggers, he shared his vision for transforming the world through the epicentre of the local church. This man is a tweeter’s dream, with sound bites just rolling off the tongue:<\/p>\n