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God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.

Bill Hybels

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
Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
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Creative Leadership People
Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
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Church God Love People
Everyone wins when a leader gets better
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Better Leading Winning
He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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Earnestly Father Prayer
This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.
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God Promise Solely Throttle
Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.
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Character Quality Spiritual
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
Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.
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Day Lead Privilege Savor
Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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Gains Insight Something
Whenever you see something going well – whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world – look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.
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Leader Light Our World
Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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Authenticity Business Spiritual
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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Attention Intended Jesus Prayer
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
I’m praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked.
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Faithful Frightened God Looked Situation
The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them
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Motivated People Way
Build something with enduring value.
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Endure Something Values
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
You don’t have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way
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Day Every Used Way
Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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Awareness Problem Self
Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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Leader Powerful Vision
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
Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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Broken Leader Pay Price
It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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Another Deals Follow Persons
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
Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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Change Character God never
People join organizations, they leave managers.
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Manager Organization People

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