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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.

Bill Hybels

Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
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Character Christian Compassion
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
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
You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?
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Regenerative Source Strength
God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
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Delight Pouring Risk
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
Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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Awareness Problem Self
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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Equipment Exercise Prayer
If it’s the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.
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Church Giving Leader
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
I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God’s miracle-working ways.
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Fall Knees Plain Prayer Writing
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
God didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
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Leader Moving Stuff
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
You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
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Life Live May Simplify
Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.
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Jesus Long Naps

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