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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.

Bill Hybels

Everyone wins when a leader gets better
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Better Leading Winning
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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Believe Leader Wise
If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.
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Courageous Cry Leadership
Once you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you.
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God Leadership Position Seriously
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
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
These are the people God will tap on the shoulder and say, “Come with me and we’re going to do something great in your lifetime. Come, we’re going to do this together.
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Come People Shoulder Together
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
Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
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Levels Lord Noise
You’re a leader. It’s your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don’t apologize to anybody.
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Jobs Leader Passion
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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Attack Hurt Passion Personal Real
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
For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, ‘This is me. I’m not proud of it – in fact, I’m a little embarrassed by it – but this is who I am.
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Flourish Proud Relationship Spouse
Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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Change Character God never
Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I’d see it in my lifetime.
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Asleep Church Lifetime Thinking Years
Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships.
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Ideas Long People Underestimate

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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