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We are here to love. Not much else matters.

Francis Chan

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Francis Chan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 31
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Pastor
Theologian
Hong Kong SAR
China
Matters
Else
Matter
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Love

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Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?
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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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We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.
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The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.
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He measures our lives by how we love.
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The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.
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If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples.
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...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.
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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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The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
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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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Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?
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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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The message of the Bible is not about God in Heaven who wants to take from you. It's about God who wants to give to you.
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I want to see people do more than simply raise their hand when they come to Christ. Where are the totally changed lives?
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The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don't fit our human standards of logic or morality. But they don't need to, because we are the clay and He is the Potter. We need to stop trying to domesticate God or confine Him to tidy categories and compartments that reflect our human sentiments rather than His inexplicable ways.
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I confess to you guys, I confess to the church, I know I have backed away from certain things because of my arrogance. I thought I could attract more people to Jesus by hiding certain things about him.
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Following Christ isn't something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are.
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We should be so joyful from God's grace that others would respond by saying, 'I wish I had your God.
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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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