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.
BILL HYBELSWhen God transforms the life of just one leader, that leader can transform a church. When one church is transformed, you can transform a community.
BILL HYBELSThere is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
BILL HYBELSIf 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 HYBELSPeople won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
BILL HYBELSTo be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
BILL HYBELSIt’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.
BILL HYBELSThere isn’t a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
BILL HYBELSGod didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
BILL HYBELSChurch 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.
BILL HYBELSGod led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.
BILL HYBELSAnd when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.
BILL HYBELSPeople 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.
BILL HYBELSIt’s incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God’s plan
BILL HYBELSI 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.
BILL HYBELSDestructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
BILL HYBELSWise 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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