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.
BILL HYBELSIt’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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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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Leadership is not for the faint of heart
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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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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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The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
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It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.
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Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.
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You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?
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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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The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.
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You’re a leader. It’s your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don’t apologize to anybody.
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Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.
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I’m praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked.
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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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This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.
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Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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Everyone wins when a leader gets better
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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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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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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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We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.
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Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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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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