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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.

Bill Hybels

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Bill Hybels
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 12
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Kalamazoo
Michigan
Directs
Empowering
Gifts
Gift
Leadership
Energizes
Empowers

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