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.
FRANCIS CHANMaking 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.
More Francis Chan Quotes
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The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.
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Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
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We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.
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Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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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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Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.
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God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.
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Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
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A key to everything is surrender – to really come before the Lord and say, – I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay’ or ‘God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.
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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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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
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We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.
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Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
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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 here to love. Not much else matters.
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