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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!

Bill Hybels

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
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
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
Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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Conversation Credibility Way
Everyone wins when a leader gets better
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Better Leading Winning
Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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Passion Produce Vision
Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.
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Day Lead Privilege Savor
If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
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Children Praying Proud
It’s spelled ‘D-O-N-E’, which means that what we could never for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. To become a real Christian is to humbly receive God’s gift of forgiveness and to commit to following His leadership.
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Christian Done Forgiveness Gift Ourselves
Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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Change Character God never
The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
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Church Hands Leader
Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
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Decisions You Leader Make Spirit
Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships.
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Ideas Long People Underestimate
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
People join organizations, they leave managers.
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Manager Organization People
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

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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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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