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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.

Bill Hybels

Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
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Day Each Ears Heaven
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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Ears God Hear Noise World
Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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Healthy Leader Senior
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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Christian Done Forgiveness Gift Ourselves
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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Character Compromise Leadership Long
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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Brokenness Depth God People Plumbed
Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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Authenticity Business Spiritual
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
Everyone wins when a leader gets better
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Better Leading Winning
Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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Broken Leader Pay Price
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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Better Increase Leadership
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
Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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Destructive Invites Track
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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Exercise Leader Stronger
Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
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Church Healing Suffering
Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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Gains Insight Something

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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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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