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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
Author
Pastor
Theologian
Hong Kong SAR
China
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Men
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Leadership
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Church
Christian
Women

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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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Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.
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Every year in my life, I trust fewer and fewer people.
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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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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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If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.
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Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.
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Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.
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Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.
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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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Tend to choose what is popular over what is right when they are in conflict. They desire to fit in both at church and outside of church they care more about what people think of their actions (like church attendance and giving) than what God thinks of their hearts and lives.
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...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.
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Show true religion, cause words don't relieve
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When I don't think biblically, I go nuts. I just go, 'This is crazy.'
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Jesus didn't say that if you wanted to follow Him you could do it in a lukewarm manner. He said, 'Take up your cross and follow Me.'
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Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple.
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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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The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.
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I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to think that the more people I talk to, the bigger the impact I'll have, and yet Jesus didn't spend His time just speaking to the masses. He spent the bulk of his time with a small group of people.
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Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?
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