We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.
FRANCIS CHANTrust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
More Francis Chan Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
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Marriage is one of the most humbling, sanctifying journeys you will ever be a part of. It forces us to wrestle with our selfishness and pride. But it also gives us a platform to display love and commitment.
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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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Don’t fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
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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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Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
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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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Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.
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Lukewarm living and claiming Christ’s name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
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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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