God’s presence is all that matters.
FRANCIS CHANDo you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?
More Francis Chan Quotes
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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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Can you worship a God who isn’t obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?
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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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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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God’s definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
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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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Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.
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Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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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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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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The disciples obey because that’s what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.
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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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Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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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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If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
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We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.
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Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
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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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When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.
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We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.
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Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.
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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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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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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.
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Jesus’ call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.
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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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