I’m convinced that one of the challenges in church leadership is to begin to think about how we might respond to the outcomes of trends that we can already discern at work. This is something that Tom Sine (cf The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time) has been doing since the 1980s but we need to be prepared to consider scenarios and take action to meet the challenges. Thus:

The goal of scenarios is to inspire creative action in the present through anticipation of possible futures. These scenarios are stories developed to challenge assumptions and stimulate new ways of thinking about the present and the future. No one knows what lies just beyond the horizon but these possibilities can inform leaders of potential challenges and opportunities they may want to prepare for now rather than react to later.Written as four imaginary letters from church leaders in 2020, these scenarios offer different perspectives on the church of the future. They are not predictions, projections, nor prophecies but rather an attempt to provoke a realization that the future may not simply be more of the same.

via Church-Futures.com:-Future-Church-Scenarios.

So this site has some 2020 visions which may begin to help us to consider the future.

One of the questions that Christians are often concerned with is the issue of the future lying in God’s hands. I think that we can take a sensible approach to this issue; it doesn’t matter whether we believe in meticulous providence or have a more open view of Divine sovereignty. The fact is that we are enjoined to read the signs of the times and take sensible approaches based on that. Unless God reveals to us an unequivocal bit of future (cf Agabus’s prophecy in Acts of famine which led Paul and others to collect aid), we should use our best understandings. It seems to me that this is the effect of being told that there will be an end of all things but that we will not know the when, that we should conduct ourselves in the meantime in a way that is faithful to Christ that the Lord would return to find us doing what he calls us to be doing.

I would say that this is actually rather similar to what those of us who take out insurance policies do: we make provision (through the futuring work of actuaries) for different potential scenarios. If we are prepared to insure our buildings, our lives, our activities, then we should be prepared to do future scenario work.