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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.

Francis Chan

Lukewarm people call ‘radical’ what Jesus expected of all His followers.
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Call Expectation Follow God Himself People Radical
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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Alone Communication Himself Intimacy
We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.
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Action Alive Ourselves
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
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
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
God never breaks His promises.
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Break God Himself Promise
The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
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God Greatness Knowledge Ourselves Treasure
The disciples obey because that’s what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.
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Death Deep Instruction Obedience People Rise
Jesus’ call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.
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Commitment God Ourselves Religious
Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
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Desire Fight God Order Simplicity Yourself
The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.
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Follow Heart Love Religious World Yourself
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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Accident Creation Design Existence God Myself Specific
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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Chapter Day God Himself Meditation Night Religious
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.
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Glory God Himself Life
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

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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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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