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.
BILL HYBELSYou 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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
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The Lord’s Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God’s attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
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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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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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Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.
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Wise 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.
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The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
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It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.
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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
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Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
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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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The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.
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Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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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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