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Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.

Francis Chan

Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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God Himself Try
Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
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Discipline Excuse Follow God
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
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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God Human Love Mistake Myself Need Perfection
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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Command Consumption Family Important Life Problem Rejoice
True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises.
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Faith God Himself Hope Promise True
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
My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
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Answer Love Myself Prayer
Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.
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Blessing Grace Punishment Yourself
Lukewarm living and claiming Christ’s name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
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Disgusting Fake God Live Name
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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Identity Lost Ourselves Scripture World
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
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
God’s definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
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Definition God Live Love Measurement Ourselves Straight
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 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
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
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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God Heaven Message Yourself
Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.
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Action Fruit Meaning World
The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
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God Himself Man Stand Wisdom Word
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
Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
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Difference God Love Wealth
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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Addiction God Relationship Simplicity Team
Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
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Action Crazy Faith Religious
God’s presence is all that matters.
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God Matter Presence
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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Consistent Distraction God Himself Intention Ourselves Reminder World
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

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