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.
BILL HYBELSOnce you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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 takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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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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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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And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.
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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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If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.
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Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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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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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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Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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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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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.
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The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.
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Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.
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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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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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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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If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
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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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God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
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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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The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
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I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.
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To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
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