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One thing is that life’s great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what’s been lost and freeing what’s been enslaved .

Bill Hybels

Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.
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Changing Community Life Organization
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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Play Soar Spectators
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.
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Attention Intended Jesus Prayer
We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
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Average Blind Spots Weakness
People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.
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Character Compromise Leadership Long
I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.
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Encouraging Evil Giving Humble Somebody
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
Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.
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Believe Leader Wise
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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Engage Hands Self The Reality
It’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me; it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.
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Bother Clarity Night Perfect Understand
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
I’m praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked.
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Faithful Frightened God Looked Situation
Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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Healthy Leader Senior
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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Exercise Leader Stronger
The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.
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Best Gift Giving Introduction
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

One thing is that life’s great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what’s been lost and freeing what’s been enslaved .

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One thing is that life’s great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what’s been lost and freeing what’s been enslaved .

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