There’s nothing like the local church when it’s working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.
BILL HYBELSThere’s nothing like the local church when it’s working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.
BILL HYBELSGod didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
BILL HYBELSLeadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
BILL HYBELSTo be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
BILL HYBELSPeople 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.
BILL HYBELSAnd 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.
BILL HYBELSGod wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
BILL HYBELSMost people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
BILL HYBELSDevelop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
BILL HYBELSThe mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
BILL HYBELSThe real deal is always going to win in the end.
BILL HYBELSIs the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
BILL HYBELSEffective 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.
BILL HYBELSFor 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.
BILL HYBELSPrayerless people cut themselves off from God’s prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that.
BILL HYBELSOur 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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