Life’s great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings.
BILL HYBELSThere’s nothing like the local church when it’s working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.
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God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
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God is looking for women and men who are full on for Him… people who have abandoned their own program and are just looking for how they can use their unique talents and abilities to further God’s activities and programs in this world.
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Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials.
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If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.
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You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
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Religion is spelled ‘D-O’, because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God’s forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you’ve done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently.
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You don’t have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way
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Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
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The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.
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Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they’re left alone to settle, they’ll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.
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It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.
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God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
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Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I’d see it in my lifetime.
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Once you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you.
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The real deal is always going to win in the end.
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If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.
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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
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It’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me; it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.
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Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It’s true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
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When you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?”
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Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.
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Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
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