People need more than a vision. They need a plan, a step-by-step explanation of how to move from vision to reality.
Bill Hybels
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Fuel
[Vision] creates energy that moves people into action. It puts the match to the fuel that most people carry around in their hearts and yearn to have ignited. But we leaders must keep striking that match by painting compelling Kingdom pictures. Again, the leadership gift is the only gift that provides this energizing spark for the church. So we need to get this right.
—Bill Hybels, Courageous Leadership
After This Day Is Gone
I always love it when its easy, things are goin’ right
There will come a day when
Love is harder to come by
Harder to come by
All I ask, that You help me, stay by my side
You can have tomorrow
You can have the next day
You can have the day after, the day after that, because
I believe after this day’s gone
Long after all the damage is done
There’s still a place in Your heart for me
There’s still a plan I can’t see
After this day is gone
Bill Hybels on Leadership
What flourishing churches have in common is that they are led by people who possess and deploy the spiritual gift of leadership. Whenever and wherever I have found a high-impact, Acts 2, prevailing church, I have also discovered a little band of brothers and sisters who were humbly and prayerfully providing the vision, the strategy, and the inspiration that enabled an entire congregation to bear fruit abundantly.
Please understand, it’s not that I believe the gift of leadership is more important than other gifts. It’s simply that people with the gift of leadership are uniquely equipped to come up with strategies and structures that provide opportunities for other people to use their gifts most effectively. Leaders see the big picture and understand how to help others find their place of service within that picture…
William Wilberforce
In 1789 William Wilberforce stood before the British Parliament and eloquently cried out for the day when men, women and children would no longer be bought and sold like farm animals. Each year for the next 18 years his bill was defeated, but he continued his tireless campaign against slavery. Finally, in 1833, four days before his death, Parliament passed a bill completely abolishing slavery.
Bill Hybels
Why Our Churches Matter
Bill Hybels, in his book Courageous Leadership, eloquently states the unique position of the church in our society:
What I discovered [in Washington D. C.] was not how powerful [our elected officials] are, but how limited their power really is. All they can actually do is rearrange the yard markers on the playing field of life. They can’t change a human heart. They can’t heal a wounded soul. They can’t turn a hatred into love. They can’t bring about repentance, forgiveness, reconciliation, peace. They can’t get to the core problem of the kid I saw in the airport and millions of others like him.
Jojo Agot 