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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.

Bill Hybels

If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.
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Christian Prayer Rushing
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
The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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Goal Stewardship Wonderful
Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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Figure Leader Map
People join organizations, they leave managers.
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Manager Organization People
You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?
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Regenerative Source Strength
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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Ears God Hear Noise World
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
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.
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Church Earth Indescribable Local Nothing
There isn’t a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
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Attention Escaped Motivation Undivided
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
And 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.
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Brokenness Depth God People Plumbed
Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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Destructive Invites Track
Effective 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.
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Attack Hurt Passion Personal Real
Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
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Ability Energy Valuable
Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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Healthy Leader Senior
Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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Beget Example Grit
Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.
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Courage Encouraging Uplifting
The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
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Envisioning Leadership Organization
I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
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Hands Jesus Nails Pierced
The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
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Church Hands Leader
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
Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.
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Coaching Goals People
Humility enables us to learn from each other.
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Each Other Enables Humility
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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God Someone Something World
If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.
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Change Courage Person Schedules
If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
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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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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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