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.
BILL HYBELSThe only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.
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Leadership is not for the faint of heart
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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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We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
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Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.
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It’s a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.
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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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Life’s great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings.
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It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.
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Humility enables us to learn from each other.
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Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There’s just too much at stake.
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Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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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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God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
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