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Bill Hybels Biography

William Hybels (born December 12, 1951) has been the central figure of multiple investigations conducted by Willow Creek Community Church. Bill was the founding and former 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.

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People won't give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.

Challenges, Give, Giving, Leader, People, Unless

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.

Christian, Prayer, Rushing, Kind, Deep

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

Cooperation, Moments, Mysterious, Promptings

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.

Input, Leader, Leadership, Minded, Serious

Leaders, your God-given job is not merely to preside over something, not to pontificate to your underlings how smart you are, not merely to preserve something from its gradual demise; it's to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.

Demise, Jobs, Moving, Preside, Smart, Underlings

It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.

Huge, Influence, Leadership, Leads, Responsibility, Way

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.

Get Better, Giving, Leader, Life, Rest, Thing

Coaching is the most important servant
leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.

Accomplish, Coaching, Goal, Helping, People

You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody.

Apologize, Jobs, Leader, Passion, Wherever

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

Exercise, Leader, Stronger, Effective, Environments

Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!

Christianity, Done, Endlessly, Love

Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church. There's nothing like the local church when it's working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.

Church, Community, Indescribable, Life Changing, Organization, Potential

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.

Become, Bible, Fact, Leader, Leadership, Spiritual

I'm praying to the Creator of the world, the King of the universe, the all-powerful, all-knowing, all-faithful God. I'm praying to the God who made the mountains and who can move them if necessary. I'm praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked. I'm praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.

Down, Kings, Mountains, Moving, Powerful, World

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

Church, Down, Has Beens, Positive, Vision

The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.

Community, Conflict, Presence, Reconciling, Spirit

The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead.

Church, Men, Redemptive, Step, Steps

For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, 'This is me. I'm not proud of it - in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it - but this is who I am.

Flourish, Intimacy, Marriage, Proud, Relationship, Who I Am

The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.

Goal, Stewardship, Wonderful, Tithe, Stop

Don't steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.

Conversation, Credibility, Establishing, Way

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