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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.

Bill Hybels

Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.
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Attack Hurt Passion Personal Real
People won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
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Giving Leader People
I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God’s miracle-working ways.
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Fall Knees Plain Prayer Writing
How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
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Focus Moving Prayer Sufficient
If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.
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Ears God Hear Noise World
It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.
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Coincidence Praying
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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Christian Mistake Spiritual
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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Christ Country Eventually Positive Redeeming
God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
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Delight Pouring Risk
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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Exercise Leader Stronger
There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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Local Church Locals Nothing
The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them
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Motivated People Way
It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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Another Deals Follow Persons
Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
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Church God Love People
It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.
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Another One Thing Vision
Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.
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Character Quality Spiritual

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