I’m praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked.
BILL HYBELSOnce 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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
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it’s to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.
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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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God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
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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 amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.
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To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.
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We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.
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If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.
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Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
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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.
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Humility enables us to learn from each other.
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Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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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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The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
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Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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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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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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It’s spelled ‘D-O-N-E’, which means that what we could never for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. To become a real Christian is to humbly receive God’s gift of forgiveness and to commit to following His leadership.
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The real deal is always going to win in the end.
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