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Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it

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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Abusing
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Oswald Chambers writes, ‘Never make a principle out of your experience let God be as original with other people as He is with you.’ To that I would add, ‘Be careful not to turn others’ lives into the mold for your own.’ Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.
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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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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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...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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I really believe it's time for some of us to stop apologizing for God and start apologizing to Him for being embarrassed by the ways He has chosen to reveal Himself
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Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.
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We live in a world where people say that you can believe anything you want about God.
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It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.
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My pride and immaturity caused me to make things more of a struggle than they had to be. I can always blame others or circumstances, but the truth was that my own sinful pride led to more stress than anything else.
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The greatest good on this earth is God
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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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There's no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.
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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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James 2:19- 'You believe there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that- and shudder.' God doesn't just want us to have good theology He wants us to know and love Him.
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I don't want to keep crawling when i have the ability to fly.
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Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
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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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A person who is obsessed thinks about heaven frequently. Obsessed people orient their lives around eternity they are not fixed only on what is here in front of them.
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Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.
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