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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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Leadership
Prayer
Church
Christian
Women
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Men

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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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My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work. [Ephesians 2:10]
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The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own 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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Every year in my life, I trust fewer and fewer people.
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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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We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel.
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The greatest good on this earth is God
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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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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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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. He treasures us and anticipates our departure from this earth to be with Him-and we wonder, indifferently, how much we have to do for Him to get by.
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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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...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.
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Fear of God failing us leads us to cover for God. This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.
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I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.
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The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.
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A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.
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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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The church becomes irrelevant when it becomes purely a human creation. We are not all we were made to be when everything in our lives and churches can be explained apart from the work and presence of the Spirit of God.
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As a culture, were so worried about whats going to happen to us 30 years from now that we are not taking care of our brothers and sisters who need help today.
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