The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
BILL HYBELSYou may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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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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The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.
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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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Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.
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Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.
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If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
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Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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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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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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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become ‘self feeders.’
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It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8.
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The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
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Whenever you see something going well – whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world – look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.
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