The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
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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If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.
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If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
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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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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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Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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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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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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He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
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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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God is looking for women and men who are full on for Him… people who have abandoned their own program and are just looking for how they can use their unique talents and abilities to further God’s activities and programs in this world.
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If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.
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Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.
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Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
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