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.
BILL HYBELSLegacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.
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Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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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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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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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 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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How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
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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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God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
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God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
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If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment
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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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