I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
BILL HYBELSYou may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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When God transforms the life of just one leader, that leader can transform a church. When one church is transformed, you can transform a community.
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It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8.
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it’s to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.
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Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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I’m praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.
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It’s spelled ‘D-O-N-E’, which means that what we could never for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. To become a real Christian is to humbly receive God’s gift of forgiveness and to commit to following His leadership.
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Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.
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Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!
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Leadership is not for the faint of heart
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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. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t.
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How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
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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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You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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God didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
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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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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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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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It’s a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.
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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.
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You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.
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He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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