Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
BILL HYBELSWise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Whenever you see something going well – whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world – look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.
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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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Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
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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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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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If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we’d be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today – not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.
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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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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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The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.
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Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
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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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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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I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
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