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Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.

Francis Chan

Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
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Action Crazy Faith Religious
The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.
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Desperate God Himself Time
True faith manifests itself through our actions.
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Action Faith Ourselves True
The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
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God Greatness Knowledge Ourselves Treasure
God never breaks His promises.
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Break God Himself Promise
Lukewarm people call ‘radical’ what Jesus expected of all His followers.
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Call Expectation Follow God Himself People Radical
Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
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Discipline Excuse Follow God
God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
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Call Comfortable God Himself Trust
Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
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Better Planning Trust Yourself
Where it gets weird is that nowadays there are millions of people on this earth who call themselves followers of Jesus, but their lives look nothing like His, and they’re not obeying the things that He called them to do.
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Earth God Himself Live Obedience People Weird
We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.
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Discipline Night Ourselves
Lukewarm people don’t really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.
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Consequence People Pin Save Warm
A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.
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Addiction God Relationship Simplicity Team
Following Christ isn’t something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are.
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Display God Heart Ourselves Side
Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.
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Leaving Similar True
My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work.
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Accident Creation Design Existence God Myself Specific

Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.

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