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The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.

Bill Hybels

Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
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Levels Lord Noise
Humility enables us to learn from each other.
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Each Other Enables Humility
He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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Earnestly Father Prayer
Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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Figure Leader Map
Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
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Church Healing Suffering
Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
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Christianity Done Recieve
Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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Passion Produce Vision
Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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Broken Leader Pay Price
Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they’re left alone to settle, they’ll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.
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Affection Focus Mind
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
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Hate Real Teaching
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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Church Giving Leader
Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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Gains Insight Something
The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
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Church Hands Leader
If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
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Children Praying Proud
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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Brokenness Depth God People Plumbed
Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
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Decisions You Leader Make Spirit
Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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Change Character God never
The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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Grander Price Tag Vision
You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.
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Energy Giving Underestimate Vision
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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Bother Clarity Night Perfect Understand
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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Changing Country Jesus Life
There isn’t a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
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Attention Escaped Motivation Undivided
People join organizations, they leave managers.
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Manager Organization People
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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Exercise Leader Stronger
Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
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Leader Powerful Vision
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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God Leadership Position Seriously
Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.
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Changing Community Life Organization

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