God made you on purpose, for a purpose
BILL HYBELSChurch work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, ‘This is me. I’m not proud of it – in fact, I’m a little embarrassed by it – but this is who I am.
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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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To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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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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Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
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A leader’s most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.
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Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
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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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It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.
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If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.
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If 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.
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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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Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
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I’m praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked.
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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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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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Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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Life’s great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings.
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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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Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
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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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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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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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