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.
BILL HYBELSTo be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.
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The real deal is always going to win in the end.
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He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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When you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?”
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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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Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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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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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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There’s nothing like the local church when it’s working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.
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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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Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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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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Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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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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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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