The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.
FRANCIS CHANWe live in a time when Christians need to be told that they are supposed to live like Christ. That’s Weird.
More Francis Chan Quotes
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We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.
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The God who loans you life sees your every move, hears each word you speak, knows your every thought. You are seen by God. Noticed. Known.
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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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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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True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises.
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The message of the Bible is not about God in Heaven who wants to take from you. It’s about God who wants to give to you.
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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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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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Do you understand that it’s impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
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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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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 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’s presence is all that matters.
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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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Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.
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Don’t fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
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I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.
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Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.
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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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The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
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Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
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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 got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.
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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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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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God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
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