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
Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.
God wants us...to talk to him as to a friend or father-authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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.
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.
Don't get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment
The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead.
We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.
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.
It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.
People join organizations, they leave managers.
God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.