You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
BILL HYBELSIf we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we’d be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today – not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
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The real deal is always going to win in the end.
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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we’d be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today – not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.
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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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Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I’d see it in my lifetime.
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You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.
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I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
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For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, ‘This is me. I’m not proud of it – in fact, I’m a little embarrassed by it – but this is who I am.
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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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It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
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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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Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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