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.
FRANCIS CHANLukewarm living and claiming Christ’s name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
More Francis Chan Quotes
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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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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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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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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 are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.
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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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The disciples obey because that’s what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.
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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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God’s presence is all that matters.
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True faith manifests itself through our actions.
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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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Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
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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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Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
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Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.
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