Can you worship a God who isn’t obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?
FRANCIS CHANThe wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
More Francis Chan Quotes
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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.
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Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
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Worry implies that we don’t quite trust God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what’s happening in our lives.
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Lukewarm living and claiming Christ’s name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
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When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God’s command to always rejoice.
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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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Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.
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Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.
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The disciples obey because that’s what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.
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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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The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
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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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The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
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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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The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.
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I don’t have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.
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Don’t fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
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I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.
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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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Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
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Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
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I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.
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My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
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We live in a time when Christians need to be told that they are supposed to live like Christ. That’s Weird.
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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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