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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.

Bill Hybels

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
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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Play Soar Spectators
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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Influence Responsibility Way
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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Christian Done Forgiveness Gift Ourselves
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
And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.
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Christ Country Eventually Positive Redeeming
For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, ‘This is me. I’m not proud of it – in fact, I’m a little embarrassed by it – but this is who I am.
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Flourish Proud Relationship Spouse
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
Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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Awareness Problem Self
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
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
Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.
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Character Quality Spiritual
I’m praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.
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Faithful God Praying Tonight Trust
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
Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment
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Equipment People Vision

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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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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