I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.
FRANCIS CHANWe should be so joyful from God’s grace that others would respond by saying, ‘I wish I had your God.
More Francis Chan Quotes
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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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Worry implies that we don’t quite trust God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what’s happening in our lives.
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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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The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
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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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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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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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The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.
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We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
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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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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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We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.
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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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Lukewarm people don’t really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.
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God’s presence is all that matters.
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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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I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.
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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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God’s definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
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True faith manifests itself through our actions.
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Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
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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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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 have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.
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God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
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Jesus’ call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.
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