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God 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 Hybels

Life’s great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings.
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Cooperation Moments Mysterious
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
Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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Conversation Credibility Way
If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
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Children Praying Proud
And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.
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Brokenness Depth God People Plumbed
Once you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you.
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God Leadership Position Seriously
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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Leader Moving Stuff
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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Challenge Church Strong
You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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Difficult Lead Most Persons
Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.
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Day Lead Privilege Savor
The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.
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Best Gift Giving Introduction
Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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Leader Powerful Vision
How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
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Focus Moving Prayer Sufficient
There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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Local Church Locals Nothing
And 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.
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Christ Country Eventually Positive Redeeming
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
If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.
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Ears God Hear Noise World
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
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Hate Real Teaching
Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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Passion Produce Vision
Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
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Feel Given People
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
Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment
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Equipment People Vision
A leader’s most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.
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Assets Energy Leader
Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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Figure Leader Map
Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
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Decisions You Leader Make Spirit
You don’t have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way
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Day Every Used Way
The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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Beats Days Onlooker Worst

God 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.

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