Francis Chan Quotes
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I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.
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If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples.
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Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.
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God's presence is all that matters.
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The stress that some of us feel - it's a lack of faith, it really is.
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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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Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
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The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.
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We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.
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What are you doing right now that requires faith?
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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. They don't genuinely hate sin and aren't truly sorry for it; they're merely sorry because God is going to punish them. Lukewarm people don't really believe that this new life Jesus offers is better than the old sinful one.
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We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.
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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 church becomes irrelevant when it becomes purely a human creation. We are not all we were made to be when everything in our lives and churches can be explained apart from the work and presence of the Spirit of God.
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I want to live so that I am truly submitted to the Spirit's leading on a daily basis. Christ said its better for us that the Spirit came and I want to live like that is true. I don't want to keep crawling when I have the ability to fly.
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We are loaded down with too many good things, more than we could ever need, while others are desperate for a small loaf. The good things we cling to are more than money; we hoard our resources, our gifts, our time, our families, out friends....how ludicrous it is to hold on to the abundance God has given us and merely repeat the words 'thank you'.
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I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.
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...our concern is more about going to heaven than loving the King.
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We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.
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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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Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses
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But hey, if that’s too much to ask, tell them to just become Christians—you know, the people who get to go to heaven without having to commit to anything
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We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.
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My only prayer for my time with you is, "God I just want these men and women to long for you."