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...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.

Francis Chan

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Francis Chan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 31
Author
Pastor
Theologian
Hong Kong SAR
China
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Incomplete
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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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Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.
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We are each given different gifts and talents by our Master. The thing that matters most is how we use what we have been given, not how much we make or do compared to someone else. What matters is that we spend ourselves.
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The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.
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I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to think that the more people I talk to, the bigger the impact I'll have, and yet Jesus didn't spend His time just speaking to the masses. He spent the bulk of his time with a small group of people.
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God is so clear in spelling out His attributes in scripture in order that others would know what He is really like.
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We live in a time when Christians need to be told that they are supposed to live like Christ. That's Weird.
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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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We have to believe it enough that it changes how we live.
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Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.
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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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Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.
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