Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.
FRANCIS CHANGrace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.
More Francis Chan Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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Don’t fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
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Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.
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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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Lukewarm living and claiming Christ’s name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
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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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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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God’s definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
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We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.
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In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.
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Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
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