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.
Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don’t push and prod people along.
Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.
A key to everything is surrender – to really come before the Lord and say, ‘I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay’ or ‘God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.’
Even in my own church I heard the words, ‘Francis Chan’ more than I heard the words, ‘Holy Spirit.’
The idea of holding back certainly didn’t come from Scripture.
There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.
A person who is obsessed thinks about heaven frequently. Obsessed people orient their lives around eternity; they are not fixed only on what is here in front of them.
As I see it, a lukewarm Christian is an oxymoron; there is no such thing. To put it plainly, churchgoers who are ‘lukewarm’ are not Christians. We will not see them in heaven.
Whatever God’s reasons for such diversity, creativity, and sophistication in the universe, on earth, and in our own bodies, the point of it all is His glory. God’s art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.
Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it.
Worry implies that we don’t quite trust God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what’s happening in our lives.
I want to train my kids so where they are the only believers they can stand on their own two feet and teach others.
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.’
Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.
Solomon warned us not to rush into God’s presence with words. That’s what fools do. And often, that’s what we do.
It’s easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!
To call someone a Christian simply because he does some Christian-y things is giving false comfort to the unsaved.
This book is written for those who want more Jesus. It is for those who are bored with what American Christianity offers. It is for those who don’t want to plateau, those who would rather die before their convictions do.
Nothing compares to being truly, exuberantly wanted by your children.