I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God’s miracle-working ways.
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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The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
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People won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
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There’s nothing like the local church when it’s working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.
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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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It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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It’s incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God’s plan
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It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8.
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We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
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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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Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
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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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He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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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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When God transforms the life of just one leader, that leader can transform a church. When one church is transformed, you can transform a community.
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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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