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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

Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There’s just too much at stake.
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Christian Compassion Life Short
I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.
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Encouraging Evil Giving Humble Somebody
A leader’s most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.
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Assets Energy Leader
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
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
Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
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Decisions You Leader Make Spirit
When you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?”
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Done Ends Wells
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
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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Christianity Speak Today
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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Character Christian Compassion
Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
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Ability Energy Valuable
The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
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Community Conflict Spirit
Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.
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Courage Encouraging Uplifting
Humility enables us to learn from each other.
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Each Other Enables Humility
Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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Healthy Leader Senior
If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!
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Growth Request Timing

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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