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If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.

Bill Hybels

Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.
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Believe Leader Wise
The Lord’s Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God’s attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
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Attention Intended Jesus Prayer
Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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Empowering Leadership
Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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Beget Example Grit
If you are anything like me you’ll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.
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Battle Fighting Home Running
One thing is that life’s great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what’s been lost and freeing what’s been enslaved .
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Cooperation Mysterious Nudge Prompting Simple
Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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Authenticity Business Spiritual
Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.
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Blink Day Enjoy Single
God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
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Delight Pouring Risk
Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
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Day Each Ears Heaven
Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
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Decisions You Leader Make Spirit
The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
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Envisioning Leadership Organization
If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t.
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Input Leader Read Serious
To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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Failure Helping Improving Leader
Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.
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Attack Hurt Passion Personal Real
The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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Goal Stewardship Wonderful

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