We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.
FRANCIS CHANJesus’ call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.
More Francis Chan Quotes
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Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
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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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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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We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.
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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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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 are here to love. Not much else matters.
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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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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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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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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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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
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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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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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The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
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