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 look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.
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 a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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.
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.
Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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.
Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.