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True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.

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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The Bible says that when we obey God’s commands, we benefit. I think we naturally assume that if we look out for our own interests and concerns, we will be happy. But people who sacrifice for others will tell you that seasons of giving are the most rewarding of their lives.
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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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Lukewarm people do not live by faith their lives are structured so that they don't have to.
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I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.
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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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Why is it that we believe God's promises of blessing but not his promises of punishment?
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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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We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.
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People who are obsessed with Jesus live lives that connect them with the poor in some way or another. Obsessed people believe that Jesus talked about money and the poor so often because it was really important to Him.
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Not being able to understand God is frustrating, but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable to comprehending.
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Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.
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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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People who are obsessed with Jesus do not consider service a burden. Obsessed people take joy in loving God by loving His people (Mt 13:44)(Jn 15:8).
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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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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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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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Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?
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We have to believe it enough that it changes how we live.
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We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.
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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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