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.
BILL HYBELSOne 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 .
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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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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I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
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If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.
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He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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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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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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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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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t.
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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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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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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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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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