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.
BILL HYBELSIf 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.
BILL HYBELSThe tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
BILL HYBELSYou are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
BILL HYBELSI’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.
BILL HYBELSMost people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
BILL HYBELSMany leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
BILL HYBELSHe [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
BILL HYBELSIt’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.
BILL HYBELSYou can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.
BILL HYBELSOur 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.
BILL HYBELSPeople will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.
BILL HYBELSHumility enables us to learn from each other.
BILL HYBELSYour culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
BILL HYBELSThe mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
BILL HYBELSGod didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
BILL HYBELSIt 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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