Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
BILL HYBELSIf 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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.
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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 Lord’s Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God’s attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
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You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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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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It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.
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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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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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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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The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.
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It’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me; it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.
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Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.
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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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One thing is that life’s great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what’s been lost and freeing what’s been enslaved .
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