The local church is the hope of the world. Bill Hybels More Quotes by Bill Hybels More Quotes From Bill Hybels Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.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. Bill Hybels life-changing community organization If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go! Bill Hybels request timing grows The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders. Bill Hybels church leader hands You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God. Bill Hybels eye matter doe 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. Bill Hybels church jesus christ The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do. Bill Hybels voice christian heart Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings. Bill Hybels cooperation mysterious moments Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't. Bill Hybels encouraging uplifting courage Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that. Bill Hybels cutting numbers people 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. 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. Bill Hybels life-changing country jesus 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. Bill Hybels ears noise world If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been. Bill Hybels dont-change schedules persons You are the most difficult person you will ever lead. Bill Hybels difficult persons Leaders, your God-given job is not merely to preside over something, not to pontificate to your underlings how smart you are, not merely to preserve something from its gradual demise; 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. Bill Hybels smart jobs moving The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them Bill Hybels motivated people way Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete. Bill Hybels compassion christian character God didn't make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward. Bill Hybels leader stuff moving Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live. Bill Hybels invites track destructive The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them. Bill Hybels best-gift introduction giving I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus. Bill Hybels nails hands jesus
