The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
BILL HYBELSIt helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God’s miracle-working ways.
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Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
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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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People won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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People join organizations, they leave managers.
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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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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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Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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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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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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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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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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God made you on purpose, for a purpose
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