You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
BILL HYBELSIf you are anything like me you’ll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.
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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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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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One thing is that life’s great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what’s been lost and freeing what’s been enslaved .
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Self awareness allows you to self-correct.
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The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
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Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
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God made you on purpose, for a purpose
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Prayerless people cut themselves off from God’s prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that.
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If it’s the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.
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God didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
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Religion is spelled ‘D-O’, because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God’s forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you’ve done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently.
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The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.
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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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Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
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