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.
BILL HYBELSIt’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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
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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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God made you on purpose, for a purpose
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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
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Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment
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Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.
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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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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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If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.
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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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Religion is spelled ‘D-O’, because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God’s forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you’ve done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently.
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The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.
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Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
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Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
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Self awareness allows you to self-correct.
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You don’t have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way
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There isn’t a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
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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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Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
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Humility enables us to learn from each other.
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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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Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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