One thing is that life’s great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what’s been lost and freeing what’s been enslaved .
BILL HYBELSGod didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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It’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me; it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.
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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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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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God is looking for women and men who are full on for Him… people who have abandoned their own program and are just looking for how they can use their unique talents and abilities to further God’s activities and programs in this world.
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Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.
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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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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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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t.
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People join organizations, they leave managers.
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Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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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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People won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
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Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
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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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