Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
BILL HYBELSTo be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.
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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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Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
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If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.
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Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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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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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
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Humility enables us to learn from each other.
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It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.
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I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.
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Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
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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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He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
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Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships.
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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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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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Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.
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Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.
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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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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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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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