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
Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.
If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.
The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.
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 living a yielded life, and if you have the preaching and teaching gift, and you're yielding that to God on a continual basis, that's one of the signs that you're in the right place doing the right thing for the right reasons. If you're doing something in the kingdom, and you rarely feel that, that's a red flag. Something needs to be looked at. Are you using the right gift? Are you using it in the right way? For the right reasons? At the right time? In the right context? If I didn't feel it consistently, that would be quite troubling to me.
If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.
Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.
We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.
Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
Our conduct will never change God's character.