If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
BILL HYBELSit’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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.
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Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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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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The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who 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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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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Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
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These are the people God will tap on the shoulder and say, “Come with me and we’re going to do something great in your lifetime. Come, we’re going to do this together.
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Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
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I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
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Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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Religion is spelled ‘D-O’, because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God’s forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you’ve done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently.
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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.
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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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Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.
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The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them
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Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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It’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.
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When you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?”
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You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?
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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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You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.
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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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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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