Lukewarm people call ‘radical’ what Jesus expected of all His followers.
FRANCIS CHANBut God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through.
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Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
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God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.
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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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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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Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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Jesus’ call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.
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Lukewarm living and claiming Christ’s name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
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Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
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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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God doesn’t want religious duty. He doesn’t want a distracted, half-hearted, ‘Fine, I’ll read a chapter, now are You happy?’ attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.
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Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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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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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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God never breaks His promises.
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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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