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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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Francis Chan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 31
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Theologian
Hong Kong SAR
China
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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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Lukewarm people call 'radical' what Jesus expected of all His followers.
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Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.
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...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.
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I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit.
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People accuse me of going overboard preparing for my first ten million years in eternity in my opinion, people go overboard in worrying about their last ten on earth.
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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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I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.
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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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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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In China I told pastors about how, in the West, we have these church buildings and how we go to services each week that last an hour or so. I told them how if we don't like the music or the message then we can go to different buildings and services... They all broke out into laughter. They thought I was the funniest guy they had ever seen.
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Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
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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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We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
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We live in a time when Christians need to be told that they are supposed to live like Christ. That's Weird.
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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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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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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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As we begin to focus more on Christ, loving Him and others becomes more natural. As long as we pursuing Him, we satisfied in Him. It is when we stop actively loving Him that we find ourselves restless and gravitating toward other means of fulfillment
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It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.
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