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.
BILL HYBELSYour energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.
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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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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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The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
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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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Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
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God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
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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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Life’s great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings.
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Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials.
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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 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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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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It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.
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