Bill Hybels Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church.

  Bill Hybels

  Jesus, Church, Christ

• 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.

  Bill Hybels

  Life Changing, Organization, Community

• The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

  Bill Hybels

  Hands, Leader, Church

  Twitter post from May 17, 2012

• The local church is the hope of the world.

  Bill Hybels

  Church, World, Local Church

  Bill Hybels, Kevin & Sherry Harney (2009). “Colossians: Discover the New You”, p.15, Harper Collins

• One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.

  Bill Hybels

  Reality, Self, Hands

• There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.

  Bill Hybels

  Church, Local Church, Locals

• When God transforms the life of just one leader, that leader can transform a church. When one church is transformed, you can transform a community. And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.

  Bill Hybels

  Country, Jesus, Life Changing

• 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.

  Bill Hybels

  Thinking, Years, Church

• Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

  Bill Hybels

  Healing, Suffering, Church

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2010

• Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people
  like God loves them

  Bill Hybels

  People, Church, God Love

• Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.

  Bill Hybels

  Jesus, Naps, Long

• 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.

  Bill Hybels

  Giving, Leader, Church

  Bill Hybels (2008). “Holy Discontent: Fueling the Fire That Ignites Personal Vision”, p.62, Zondervan

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

  Bill Hybels

  Vision, Church, Has Beens

• 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.

  Bill Hybels

  Bible, Spiritual, Leader

• Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials.

  Bill Hybels

  Strong, Challenges, Church

• I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.

  Bill Hybels

  Leader, Church, Needs

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

  Bill Hybels

  Men, Church, Steps

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