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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.

Bill Hybels

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
He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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Earnestly Father Prayer
It’s incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God’s plan
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Christian Day Each God Plan
If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
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Desperation Discipline Learned Prayer
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
You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.
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Energy Giving Underestimate Vision
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
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
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
You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.
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Pursue Safe Vision
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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Bother Clarity Night Perfect Understand
Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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Empowering Leadership
Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.
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Coaching Goals People
There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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Local Church Locals Nothing
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
Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
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Discipline Doe Heaven

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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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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