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 CHANWe are here to love. Not much else matters.
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Lukewarm living and claiming Christ’s name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
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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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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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We are here to love. Not much else matters.
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We should be so joyful from God’s grace that others would respond by saying, ‘I wish I had your God.
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Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.
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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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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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Don’t fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
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The disciples obey because that’s what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.
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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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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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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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We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.
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Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
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