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.
FRANCIS CHANThe 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.
More Francis Chan Quotes
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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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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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God’s presence is all that matters.
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We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.
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Lukewarm living and claiming Christ’s name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
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In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.
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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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Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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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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We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
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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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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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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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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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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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