A leader’s most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.
BILL HYBELSThe local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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It’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me; it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.
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If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.
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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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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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Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment
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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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It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8.
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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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Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?
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It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.
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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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If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.
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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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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
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Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
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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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This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.
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Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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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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You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.
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The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
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You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.
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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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