Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.
BILL HYBELSThe leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.
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You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.
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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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A leader’s most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.
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Whenever you see something going well – whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world – look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.
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Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
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If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
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God made you on purpose, for a purpose
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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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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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Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There’s just too much at stake.
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Religion is spelled ‘D-O’, because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God’s forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you’ve done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently.
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Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
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