The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
BILL HYBELSDignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
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Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.
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I’m praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.
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Leadership is not for the faint of heart
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You’re a leader. It’s your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don’t apologize to anybody.
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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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Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
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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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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.
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Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.
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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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People join organizations, they leave managers.
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You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.
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Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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