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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.

Francis Chan

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
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
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
Lukewarm people call ‘radical’ what Jesus expected of all His followers.
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Call Expectation Follow God Himself People Radical
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
Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.
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Blessing Grace Punishment Yourself
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
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
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
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Failure Fear Greatness Life Success
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
Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.
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Freedom Power Thinking Yourself
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
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
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
God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
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Call Comfortable God Himself Trust
I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.
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Believe Compassionate Generosity Help Love Myself
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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Definition God Love Ourselves Standard
Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
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Difference God Love Wealth
Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.
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Action Fruit Meaning World
Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
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Believe Live Wrong
Following Christ isn’t something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are.
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Display God Heart Ourselves Side
Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
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Action Crazy Faith Religious
We are here to love. Not much else matters.
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Important Love Value Worth
True faith manifests itself through our actions.
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Action Faith Ourselves True
If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
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Activity Care Faith God Hero Religious
Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
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Better Planning Trust 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

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