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.
BILL HYBELSPeople won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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Everyone wins when a leader gets better
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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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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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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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If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.
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it’s to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.
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The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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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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If it’s the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.
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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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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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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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How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
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