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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 Hybels

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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Christian Mistake Spiritual
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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Changing Country Jesus Life
I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
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Hands Jesus Nails Pierced
I’m praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.
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Faithful God Praying Tonight Trust
If it’s the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.
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Church Giving Leader
Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
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Commitment Leader Needs
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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Bible Leader Spiritual
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
Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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Gains Insight Something
Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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Authenticity Business Spiritual
Life’s great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings.
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Cooperation Moments Mysterious
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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Character Compromise Leadership Long
Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
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Christianity Done Recieve
The Lord’s Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God’s attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
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Attention Intended Jesus Prayer
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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Christ Country Eventually Positive Redeeming
A leader’s most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.
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Assets Energy Leader
God is looking for women and men who are full on for Him… people who have abandoned their own program and are just looking for how they can use their unique talents and abilities to further God’s activities and programs in this world.
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Men People Unique
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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God Someone Something World
People join organizations, they leave managers.
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Manager Organization People
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
When you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?”
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Done Ends Wells
The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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Grander Price Tag Vision
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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Challenge Church Strong
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
This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.
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God Promise Solely Throttle
There’s nothing like the local church when it’s working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.
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Church Earth Indescribable Local Nothing
You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
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Life Live May Simplify

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