Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
BILL HYBELSTen 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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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It’s spelled ‘D-O-N-E’, which means that what we could never for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. To become a real Christian is to humbly receive God’s gift of forgiveness and to commit to following His leadership.
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People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.
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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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Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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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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Everyone wins when a leader gets better
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Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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You 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.
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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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Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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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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Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
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Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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