I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
BILL HYBELSThe 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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
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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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Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
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Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
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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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Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
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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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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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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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We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.
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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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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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Once you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you.
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One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.
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