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Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.

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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...if God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn't draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)?
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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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The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.
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Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.
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When loving Him becomes obligation, one of the many things we have to do, we end up focusing even more on ourselves.
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A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be humble enough, and so they seek to make themselves less known and Christ more known (Mt 5:16).
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