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Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in.

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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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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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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The God who loans you life sees your every move, hears each word you speak, knows your every thought. You are seen by God. Noticed. Known.
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I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them.
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Jesus' call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.
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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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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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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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With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.
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Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.
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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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He measures our lives by how we love.
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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 have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.
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When you read the New Testament, you see the Holy Spirit was supposed to change everything so that this gathering of people who call themselves Christians had this supernatural element about them.
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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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True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.
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A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'
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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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