If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been. Bill Hybels More Quotes by Bill Hybels More Quotes From Bill Hybels Don't get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment Bill Hybels equipment vision people You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source? Bill Hybels source 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. Bill Hybels rushing prayer christian Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens. Bill Hybels passion real hurt Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials. Bill Hybels church strong challenges The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead. Bill Hybels church steps men Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity. Bill Hybels authenticity spiritual The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there. Bill Hybels envisioning organization leadership Our conduct will never change God's character. Bill Hybels change-god never-change character We 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.' We should have gotten people, taught people, how to read their bible between service, how to do the spiritual practices much more aggressively on their own. Bill Hybels spiritual christian mistake Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness. Bill Hybels church suffering healing The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker. Bill Hybels worst-day beats worst Humility enables us to learn from each other. Bill Hybels humility Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision. Bill Hybels has-beens vision church I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways. Bill Hybels prayer writing fall The Christian life is one of faith, where we find ourselves routinely overdriving our headlights but knowing it's okay because God is in control and has a purpose behind it. Bill Hybels purpose knowing christian If you're living a yielded life, and if you have the preaching and teaching gift, and you're yielding that to God on a continual basis, that's one of the signs that you're in the right place doing the right thing for the right reasons. If you're doing something in the kingdom, and you rarely feel that, that's a red flag. Something needs to be looked at. Are you using the right gift? Are you using it in the right way? For the right reasons? At the right time? In the right context? If I didn't feel it consistently, that would be quite troubling to me. Bill Hybels red-flags teaching kingdoms If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now. Bill Hybels courageous cry ifs Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map. Bill Hybels maps figures leader We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did. Bill Hybels kingdoms pay jesus
