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I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.

Bill Hybels

Humility enables us to learn from each other.
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Each Other Enables Humility
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
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Hate Real Teaching
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
Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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Awareness Problem Self
If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
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Children Praying Proud
Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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Change Character God never
There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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Local Church Locals Nothing
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
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
Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.
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Character Quality Spiritual
We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become ‘self feeders.’
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Christian Mistake Spiritual
Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.
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Leaders Matters World
Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.
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Courage Encouraging Uplifting
People join organizations, they leave managers.
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Manager Organization People
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
And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.
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Christ Country Eventually Positive Redeeming

I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.

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I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.

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