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My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.

Francis Chan

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Francis Chan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 31
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Theologian
Hong Kong SAR
China
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We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.
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In China I told pastors about how, in the West, we have these church buildings and how we go to services each week that last an hour or so. I told them how if we don't like the music or the message then we can go to different buildings and services... They all broke out into laughter. They thought I was the funniest guy they had ever seen.
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Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
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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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We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.
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The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.
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We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.
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True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.
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We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.
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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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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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Giving that is not motivated by love is worth nothing.
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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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Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?
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Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?
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God never excuses sin. And He is always consistent with that ethic. Whenever we start to question whether God really hates sin, we have only to think of the cross, where His Son was tortured, mocked, and beaten because of sin. Our sin
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Don’t believe something just because you want to, and don’t embrace an idea just because you’ve always believed it. Believe what is biblical. Test all your assumptions against the precious words God gave us in the Bible.
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It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity.
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