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.
BILL HYBELSWe made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become ‘self feeders.’
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.
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It’s incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God’s plan
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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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People join organizations, they leave managers.
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You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.
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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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Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.
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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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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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Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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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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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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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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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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