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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!

Bill Hybels

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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God Leadership Position Seriously
Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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Healthy Leader Senior
To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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Failure Helping Improving Leader
Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
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Creative Leadership People
Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment
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Equipment People Vision
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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Jesus Long Naps
Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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Broken Leader Pay Price
The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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Goal Stewardship Wonderful
The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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Grander Price Tag Vision
You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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Difficult Lead Most Persons
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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Asleep Church Lifetime Thinking Years
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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Bother Clarity Night Perfect Understand
People won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
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Giving Leader People
Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There’s just too much at stake.
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Christian Compassion Life Short
Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.
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Blink Day Enjoy Single
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.
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Hate Real Teaching

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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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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