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

Bill Hybels

If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.
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Christian Prayer Rushing
Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.
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Coaching Goals People
The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
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Community Conflict Spirit
Prayerless people cut themselves off from God’s prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that.
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Cutting Numbers People
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
Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There’s just too much at stake.
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Christian Compassion Life Short
Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.
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Jesus Long Naps
Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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Change Character God never
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
Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.
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Courage Encouraging Uplifting
If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
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Leader Read Serious
Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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Gains Insight Something
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
We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
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Average Blind Spots Weakness
Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
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Commitment Leader Needs
I’m praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked.
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Faithful Frightened God Looked Situation

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

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