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 you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring 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.
Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships. And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.
This is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn't some pre-game warm-up. It's the game, and the clock is ticking!
Everyone wins when a leader gets better
We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.
It's incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God's plan
One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.
Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
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.
There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop...is beyond me!