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The point of your life is to point to Him...it is His movie, His world, His gift.

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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Life
World
Gift
Movie

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I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.
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...I don't have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.
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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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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
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As we begin to focus more on Christ, loving Him and others becomes more natural. As long as we pursuing Him, we satisfied in Him. It is when we stop actively loving Him that we find ourselves restless and gravitating toward other means of fulfillment
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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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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 is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards.
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A disciple is a disciple maker.
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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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...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.
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The greatest good on this earth is God
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Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage.
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A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.
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As a culture, were so worried about whats going to happen to us 30 years from now that we are not taking care of our brothers and sisters who need help today.
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Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church....as long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. If they have a little extra and it is easy and safe to give, they do so. After all, God loves a cheerful giver, right?
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You find that the things you let go of while following Jesus were the things that were going to destroy you in the end.
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Tend to choose what is popular over what is right when they are in conflict. They desire to fit in both at church and outside of church they care more about what people think of their actions (like church attendance and giving) than what God thinks of their hearts and lives.
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Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.
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The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.
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