People 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.
BILL HYBELSIf you are anything like me you’ll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.
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Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
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Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.
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Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t.
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Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
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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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He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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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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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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The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
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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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Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.
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