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Making disciples isn't about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.
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The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.
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You have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin.
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Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.
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Lukewarm people call 'radical' what Jesus expected of all His followers.
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Which is more messed up- that we have so much compared to everyone else, or that we don't think we're rich? That on any given day, we might flippantly call ourselves 'broke' or 'poor?' We are neither of those things. We are rich. Filthy rich.
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Can I go to heaven without truly and faithfully loving Jesus?
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Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
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People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can never love them back.
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Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.
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We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.
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Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
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Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as the beautiful image-bearing creatures that they are.
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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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Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do. Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work.
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In reality, not one of us will ever be worthy. It is useless to attempt earning it; you'll never feel ready. It is unknown and uncomfortable. But there really is a God who forgives everything and loves endlessly.
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There is nothing better than giving up everything and stepping into a passionate love relationship with God, the God of the universe who made galaxies, leaves, laughter, and me and you.
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I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want people to look at my life and know I couldn't be doing this by my own power. I want to live in such a way that I am desperate for Him to come through. That if He doesn't come through, I am screwed.
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Be careful not to turn others' lives into the mold for your own...we have a # God who is a # Creator not a # Duplicator.
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The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
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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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But hey, if that's too much to ask, tell them to just become Christians—you know, the people who get to go to heaven without having to commit to anything
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It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.
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Don't believe something just because you want to, and don't embrace an idea just because you've always believed it. Believe what is biblical. Test all your assumptions against the precious words God gave us in the Bible.
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It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.
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Born:
August 31, 1967
(age 56)
Bio:
Francis Chan is an American preacher. He is the former teaching pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, California, a church he and his wife started in 1994.
Known for:
Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God (2008)
Forgotten God (2009)
Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples (2012)
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