Francis Chan Quotes
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Show true religion, cause words don't relieve
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Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.
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Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'
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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."
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When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from the tone of our culture.
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Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses
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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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Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions.
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From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?
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We are not alone. Even now there are thousands of beings in heaven watching what is going on down here—a ‘great cloud of witnesses,’ the Scripture says. It reminds me that there is so much more to our existence than what we can see. What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.
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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 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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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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There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.
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Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color.
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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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...our concern is more about going to heaven than loving the King.
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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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Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.
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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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We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.
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You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.
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Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.
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The enemy just hates our prayers.