The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
BILL HYBELSIs the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
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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Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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The Lord’s Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God’s attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
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Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
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You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?
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We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
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I’m praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.
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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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Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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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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Religion is spelled ‘D-O’, because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God’s forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you’ve done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently.
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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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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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Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.
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Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
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