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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.

Bill Hybels

Build something with enduring value.
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Endure Something Values
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
Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
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Ability Energy Valuable
Whenever you see something going well – whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world – look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.
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Leader Light Our World
God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
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Delight Pouring Risk
Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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Gains Insight Something
Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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Conversation Credibility Way
If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
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Children Praying Proud
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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Cooperation Mysterious Nudge Prompting Simple
People join organizations, they leave managers.
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Manager Organization People
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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Cutting Numbers People
Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.
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Day Lead Privilege Savor
And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.
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Brokenness Depth God People Plumbed
It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.
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Another One Thing Vision
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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Ideas Long People Underestimate
Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.
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Christ Church Human Jesus Person

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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