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The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

Francis Chan

God’s definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
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Definition God Live Love Measurement Ourselves Straight
Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
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Discipline Excuse Follow God
God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.
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Allow God Hard Joy Life Peace World Yourself
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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Fertilizer Growth Help Togetherness
We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.
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End Goal Prayer Thinking
My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
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Answer Love Myself Prayer
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
Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.
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Alone Communication Himself Intimacy
Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
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Comfortable Experience Live Ourselves
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
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
Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.
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Action Fruit Meaning World
Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church’s crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.
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Identity Lost Ourselves Scripture World
Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
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Believe Live Wrong
When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.
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Feeling Love Manifestation Obligation Work
The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.
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Complete God Himself Leadership Understand Worship

The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

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