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.
BILL HYBELSWhen God transforms the life of just one leader, that leader can transform a church. When one church is transformed, you can transform a community.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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People join organizations, they leave managers.
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There isn’t a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
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Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
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Build something with enduring value.
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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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Humility enables us to learn from each other.
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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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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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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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Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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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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Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they’re left alone to settle, they’ll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.
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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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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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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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I’m praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.
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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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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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You don’t have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way
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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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Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
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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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One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.
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Prayerless people cut themselves off from God’s prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that.
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