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My only prayer for my time with you is, God I just want these men and women to long for you.

Francis Chan

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Francis Chan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 31
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Hong Kong SAR
China
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Lukewarm people call 'radical' what Jesus expected of all His followers.
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When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.
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Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.
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Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it
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He has more of a right to ask us why so many people are starving [than we do to ask Him]. As much as we want God to explain himself to us, His creation, we are in no place to demand that He give an account to us.
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The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.
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