If you are anything like me you’ll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.
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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Whenever you see something going well – whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world – look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.
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The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
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And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.
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Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
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It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.
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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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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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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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If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
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The Lord’s Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God’s attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
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If it’s the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.
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Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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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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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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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.
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