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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

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.
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Behavior Humans Levels
How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
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Focus Moving Prayer Sufficient
The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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Grander Price Tag Vision
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 .
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Cooperation Mysterious Nudge Prompting Simple
Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment
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Equipment People Vision
It’s a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.
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Influence Responsibility Way
Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
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Christianity Done Recieve
Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
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Busy Christian Spiritual
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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Christian Mean Mountain Prayer Real
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
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
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
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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Input Leader Read Serious
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
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
If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
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Desperation Discipline Learned Prayer

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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