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The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.

Bill Hybels

Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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Change Character God never
It’s a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.
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Influence Responsibility Way
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
It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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Another Deals Follow Persons
Everyone wins when a leader gets better
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Better Leading Winning
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
Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
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Busy Christian Spiritual
We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.
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Better Cry Leadership World
You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.
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Pursue Safe Vision
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
The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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Beats Days Onlooker Worst
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
You’re a leader. It’s your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don’t apologize to anybody.
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Jobs Leader Passion
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
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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Christian Compassion Life Short
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
If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
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Children Praying Proud
Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
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Levels Lord Noise
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
God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.
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Crowns Easter Jesus
Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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Beget Example Grit
Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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Authenticity Business Spiritual
God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
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Appreciate Father Heaven
To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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Failure Helping Improving Leader
Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
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Day Each Ears Heaven
God is looking for women and men who are full on for Him… people who have abandoned their own program and are just looking for how they can use their unique talents and abilities to further God’s activities and programs in this world.
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Men People Unique
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

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