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For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, ‘This is me. I’m not proud of it – in fact, I’m a little embarrassed by it – but this is who I am.

Bill Hybels

You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?
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Regenerative Source Strength
If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.
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Courageous Cry Leadership
You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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Difficult Lead Most Persons
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
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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Attention Intended Jesus Prayer
People won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
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Giving Leader People
If you are anything like me you’ll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.
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Battle Fighting Home Running
Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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Conversation Credibility Way
Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
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Ability Energy Valuable
Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
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Character Christian Compassion
Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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Change Character God never
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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Believe Leader Wise
Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
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Day Each Ears Heaven
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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Christ Church Human Jesus Person
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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Faithful God Praying Tonight Trust
When you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?”
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Done Ends Wells
Build something with enduring value.
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Endure Something Values
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 takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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Another Deals Follow Persons
it’s to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.
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God Someone Something World
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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Bible Leader Spiritual
The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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Grander Price Tag Vision
Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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Passion Produce Vision
Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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Beget Example Grit
Life’s great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings.
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Cooperation Moments Mysterious
Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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Gains Insight Something
Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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Destructive Invites Track

For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, ‘This is me. I’m not proud of it – in fact, I’m a little embarrassed by it – but this is who I am.

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For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, ‘This is me. I’m not proud of it – in fact, I’m a little embarrassed by it – but this is who I am.

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