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.
FRANCIS CHANI don’t have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.
More Francis Chan Quotes
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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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Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
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Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.
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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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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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I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.
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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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We are here to love. Not much else matters.
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True faith manifests itself through our actions.
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True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises.
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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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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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God’s definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
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The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
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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 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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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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The disciples obey because that’s what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.
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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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But 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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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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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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Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?
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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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