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Personally, I’ve never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop…is beyond me!

Bill Hybels

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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Better Increase Leadership
Leadership is not for the faint of heart
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Adoption Heart Spiderman
Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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Broken Leader Pay Price
Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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Beget Example Grit
The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
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Church Hands Leader
The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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Goal Stewardship Wonderful
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
Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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Change Character God never
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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Hate Real Teaching
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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Encouraging Evil Giving Humble Somebody
Build something with enduring value.
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Endure Something Values
I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God’s miracle-working ways.
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Fall Knees Plain Prayer Writing
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
Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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Empowering Leadership
Self awareness allows you to self-correct.
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Awareness Self
Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.
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Christ Church Human Jesus Person
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.
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God Leadership Position Seriously
Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment
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Equipment People Vision
You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
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Life Live May Simplify
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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Ears God Hear Noise World
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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Believe Leader Wise
Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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Passion Produce Vision
If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
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Children Praying Proud
There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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Local Church Locals Nothing
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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Creative Leadership People
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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Day Every Used Way
You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?
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Regenerative Source Strength

Personally, I’ve never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop…is beyond me!

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Personally, I’ve never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop…is beyond me!

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