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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.

Francis Chan

Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
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Discipline Excuse Follow God
If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
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Activity Care Faith God Hero Religious
The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
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God Greatness Knowledge Ourselves Treasure
True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises.
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Faith God Himself Hope Promise True
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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Definition God Love Ourselves Standard
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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Education Focus Follow Love People Student Teaching
We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.
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Creation Fake God
God’s presence is all that matters.
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God Matter Presence
Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?
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Compassionate God Himself Life Love People
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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Big Enough God Live Ourselves Quite Trust Worry
God’s definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
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Definition God Live Love Measurement Ourselves Straight
My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
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Answer Love Myself Prayer
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
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Failure Fear Greatness Life Success
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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Accident Creation Design Existence God Myself Specific
Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
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Difference God Love Wealth
Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?
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Change God Live Relationship Yourself
Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?
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God Himself Love Yourself
Don’t fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
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Fall Religious Scripture Study Trap
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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Afraid Call Comfortable God Himself Situation Trouble Trust
Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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God Himself Life Story
God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
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Call Comfortable God Himself Trust
Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.
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Action Fruit Meaning World
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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Addiction God Relationship Simplicity Team
Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
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Action Crazy Faith Religious
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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Command Consumption Family Important Life Problem Rejoice
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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Earth God Himself Live Obedience People Weird
Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
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Better Planning Trust Yourself

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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