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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.

Bill Hybels

Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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Passion Produce Vision
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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Behavior Humans Levels
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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Discipline Doe Heaven
A leader’s most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.
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Assets Energy Leader
If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
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Leader Read Serious
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
The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them
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Motivated People Way
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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Influence Responsibility Way
We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
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Average Blind Spots Weakness
Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
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Christianity Done Recieve
Personally, I’ve never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop…is beyond me!
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Play Soar Spectators
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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Jobs Leader Passion
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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Creative Leadership People
People won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
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Giving Leader People
If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.
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Change Courage Person Schedules
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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Asleep Church Lifetime Thinking Years

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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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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