God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.
BILL HYBELSGod is looking for women and men who are full on for Him… people who have abandoned their own program and are just looking for how they can use their unique talents and abilities to further God’s activities and programs in this world.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
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Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
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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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Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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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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The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them
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Everyone wins when a leader gets 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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You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
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It’s a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.
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Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.
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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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