My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
FRANCIS CHANWhere 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.
More Francis Chan Quotes
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If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
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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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Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.
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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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We are here to love. Not much else matters.
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Do you understand that it’s impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
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Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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The message of the Bible is not about God in Heaven who wants to take from you. It’s about God who wants to give to you.
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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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Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
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A key to everything is surrender – to really come before the Lord and say, – I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay’ or ‘God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.
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We should be so joyful from God’s grace that others would respond by saying, ‘I wish I had your God.
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God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don’t have the license to define love according to our standards.
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Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
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He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a ‘Christian’ without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.
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