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
God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
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.
Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
Our conduct will never change God's character.
Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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.
Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.
It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8. 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.
Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader's arsenal.
Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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.
Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.