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People won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.

Bill Hybels

We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become ‘self feeders.’
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Christian Mistake Spiritual
Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships.
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Ideas Long People Underestimate
There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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Local Church Locals Nothing
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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Battle Fighting Home Running
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
If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t.
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Input Leader Read Serious
Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
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Feel Given People
I’m praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked.
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Faithful Frightened God Looked Situation
Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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Empowering Leadership
Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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Awareness Problem Self
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
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Hate Real Teaching
A leader’s most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.
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Assets Energy Leader
The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
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Community Conflict Spirit
Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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Leader Powerful Vision
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.
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Asleep Church Lifetime Thinking Years
Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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Conversation Credibility Way

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