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Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.

Francis Chan

We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.
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God Need Ourselves People Reputation
Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
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Believe Live Wrong
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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Fertilizer Growth Help Togetherness
Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?
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God Himself Love Yourself
We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
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Attention Close God Growth Ourselves Pursuit
Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?
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Compassionate God Himself Life Love People
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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Feeling Love Manifestation Obligation Work
Do you understand that it’s impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
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God Impossible Understand Way Yourself
Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.
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Blessing Grace Punishment Yourself
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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Command Consumption Family Important Life Problem Rejoice
I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.
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Better God Reason Right Temptation Walk
Lukewarm living and claiming Christ’s name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
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Disgusting Fake God Live Name
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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Addiction God Relationship Simplicity Team
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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Afraid Call Comfortable God Himself Situation Trouble Trust
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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God Life Loan Move Talk Thinking Word Yourself
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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Call Devotion Follow Person Thinking Weird
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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Earth God Myself Surrender
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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God Human Love Mistake Myself Need Perfection
We are here to love. Not much else matters.
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Important Love Value Worth
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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Education Focus Follow Love People Student Teaching
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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Better Fall God Life Myself Relationship Wonderful
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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Earth God Himself Live Obedience People Weird
God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
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Call Comfortable God Himself Trust
Don’t fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
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Fall Religious Scripture Study Trap
God never breaks His promises.
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Break God Himself Promise
Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
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Comfortable Experience Live Ourselves
Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
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Discipline Excuse Follow God

Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.

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