Once 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.
BILL HYBELSLeaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
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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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Leadership is not for the faint of heart
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You’re a leader. It’s your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don’t apologize to anybody.
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Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
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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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I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
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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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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.
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Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!
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it’s to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.
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The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
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