You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?
BILL HYBELSChurch work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.
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God made you on purpose, for a purpose
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Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
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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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God is looking for women and men who are full on for Him… people who have abandoned their own program and are just looking for how they can use their unique talents and abilities to further God’s activities and programs in this world.
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We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.
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I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.
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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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Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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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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Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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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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The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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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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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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To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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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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When you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?”
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Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment
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Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There’s just too much at stake.
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If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.
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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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The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
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