Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
BILL HYBELSGod wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials.
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Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.
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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
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Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
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Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
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Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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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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Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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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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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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It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.
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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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Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.
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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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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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You’re a leader. It’s your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don’t apologize to anybody.
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When God transforms the life of just one leader, that leader can transform a church. When one church is transformed, you can transform a community.
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Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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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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You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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Everyone wins when a leader gets better
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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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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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