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.
BILL HYBELSChurch 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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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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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You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.
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A leader’s most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.
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God didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
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Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.
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People won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
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The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.
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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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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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The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
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Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It’s true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
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Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they’re left alone to settle, they’ll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.
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