It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.
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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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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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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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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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It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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The Lord’s Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God’s attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
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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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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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It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.
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Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It’s true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
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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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Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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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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Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.
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One thing is that life’s great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what’s been lost and freeing what’s been enslaved .
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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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The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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When God transforms the life of just one leader, that leader can transform a church. When one church is transformed, you can transform a community.
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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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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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People won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
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The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.
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Life’s great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings.
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Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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