Bill Hybels
Bill Hybels
William Hybelsis the founding and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois, one of the most attended churches in North America, with an average attendance of nearly 24,000 as of 2011. He is the founder of the Willow Creek Association and creator of the Global Leadership Summit. Hybels is also an author of a number of Christian books, especially on the subject of Christian leadership...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth12 December 1951
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
Don't steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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.
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.
If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
If you're a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
When you get to the end will God say, "Well done," or, "What was up with that?"
Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.
The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.
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.