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Are we in love with God or just His stuff?

Francis Chan

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Francis Chan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 31
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Hong Kong SAR
China
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I want to train my kids so where they are the only believers they can stand on their own two feet and teach others.
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Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?
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I want to help people understand how to study the Scriptures with other people, to give them an overview of Scripture and assume that by understanding the Scriptures better, the Holy Spirit will bring to mind the right stories, the right teachings.
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We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
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We have to believe it enough that it changes how we live.
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We are here to love. Not much else matters.
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A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be humble enough, and so they seek to make themselves less known and Christ more known (Mt 5:16).
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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 my Creator said, 'Go and make disciples.' So I don't want to sit and make excuses.
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If you want to see the big stuff that God has, you've got to take some risk and trust only in the Gospel.
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People accuse me of going overboard preparing for my first ten million years in eternity in my opinion, people go overboard in worrying about their last ten on earth.
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