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Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.

Bill Hybels

Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I’d see it in my lifetime.
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Asleep Church Lifetime Thinking Years
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
You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.
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Better Increase Leadership
This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.
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God Promise Solely Throttle
I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God’s miracle-working ways.
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Fall Knees Plain Prayer Writing
Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
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Church God Love People
Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they’re left alone to settle, they’ll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.
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Affection Focus Mind
I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.
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Encouraging Evil Giving Humble Somebody
Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships.
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Ideas Long People Underestimate
Life’s great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings.
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Cooperation Moments Mysterious
It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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Another Deals Follow Persons
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’re a leader. It’s your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don’t apologize to anybody.
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Jobs Leader Passion
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
There isn’t a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
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Attention Escaped Motivation Undivided
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

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.

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