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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.

Bill Hybels

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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Beats Days Onlooker Worst
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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Cooperation Mysterious Nudge Prompting Simple
The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
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Community Conflict Spirit
When you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?”
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Done Ends Wells
Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
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Commitment Leader Needs
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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Christianity Speak Today
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
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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Influence Responsibility Way
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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Growth Request Timing
Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
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Church Healing Suffering
There isn’t a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
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Attention Escaped Motivation Undivided
Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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Passion Produce Vision
Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.
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Character Quality Spiritual
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
Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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Authenticity Business Spiritual
You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
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Life Live May Simplify

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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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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