Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
BILL HYBELSDestructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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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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If it’s the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.
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Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
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Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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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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I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
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Humility enables us to learn from each other.
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We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become ‘self feeders.’
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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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We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
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Prayerless people cut themselves off from God’s prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that.
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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we’d be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today – not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.
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