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There’s an unchecked disease in our  churches: ‘visionary dreaming’

There’s an unchecked disease in our churches: ‘visionary dreaming’

Matt Paterson

In 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote about the dangers of what he called ‘visionary dreaming’.

He said: ‘God hates visionary dreaming; it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious.’ In our present context, we might translate these words as something like dreams of ministry success.