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.
BILL HYBELSYou cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment
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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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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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And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.
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The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.
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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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If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!
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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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To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.
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Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
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The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.
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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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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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