Francis Chan Quotes
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Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.
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Don’t believe something just because you want to, and don’t embrace an idea just because you’ve always believed it. Believe what is biblical. Test all your assumptions against the precious words God gave us in the Bible.
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Because I want to get a lot done, I can sometimes do that in the flesh. If I don't rest in the Lord, and enjoy him as I should, my action doesn't spring from my identity and enjoyment of Christ. When that happens, I end up getting the glory rather than Jesus.
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It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption the cross, even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.
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We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.
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We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.
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God cares more about your obedience to His Spirit's leading TODAY than what you will do next year.
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The stress that some of us feel - it's a lack of faith, it really is.
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What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.
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I sometimes struggle with how to properly respond to God’s magnitude in a world bent on ignoring or merely tolerating Him. But know this: God will not be tolerated. He instructs us to worship and fear Him.
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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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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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It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!
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I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.
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When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.
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...we'll first address our inaccurate view of God and, consequently of ourselves.
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Why is it that we believe God's promises of blessing but not his promises of punishment?
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Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?
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I am just an earthly sinful father & I love my kids so much it hurts. How could I not trust a heavenly, perfect Father who loves me infinitely more than I will ever love my kids?
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If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn’t draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)? Doesn’t His courting, luring, pushing, calling and even ‘threatening’ demonstrate His love? If He didn’t do all of that, wouldn’t we accuse Him of being unloving in the end, when all things are revealed?
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Obsessed people are more concerned with obeying God than doing what is expected or fulfilling the status quo. A person who is obsessed with Jesus will do things that don't always make sense in terms of success or wealth on this earth.
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People see only my actions. Instead, if I focus on Christ with thanksgiving, people see Him.
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Can I go to heaven without truly and faithfully loving Jesus?”
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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.'