Challenges Quote by Bill Hybels

“When people love their church, its leaders can sometimes get complacent and lose touch with how essential their own transformation is to the effectiveness…

— Greg L. Hawkins

Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who have been…

— Brennan Manning

To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.

— J. Oswald Sanders

“I believe that the great tragedy of the church in our time has been its failure to recognize the importance of the spiritual gift…

— Bill Hybels

“The first steps toward improvement involve recognizing weaknesses, making corrections, and cultivating strengths. Many reasons explain why church leadership is less than the best,…

— J Oswald Sanders

Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying…

— C. J. Mahaney

The business of church is ultimately people. You're trying to heal people, grow people, teach people, and mend people. And when leaders spend all…

— Henry Cloud

The Church is always in trouble because the Church walks into the trouble in which mankind is trying to resolve itself. There are a…

— Dolores Hart

Weak leaders of churches blame people and circumstances. Breakout church leaders accept responsibility and see God's possibilities in even difficult situations.

— Thom S. Rainer

“Without the persistent rising up of individuals that seek the Lord and place themselves under His direct leadership, churches will inevitably...slip into human hierarchy,…

— Henry Hon

“Times are changing, and we must change with them. The twenty-first-century church does and will continually face radical change and much uncertainity with undefined…

— Steve Raimo

In every growing church you will find leadership that is not afraid to believe God.

— Rick Warren