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" 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.' "
Long
Earth
You
" As a culture, we're so worried about what's going to happen to us 30 years from now that we are not taking care of our brothers and sisters who need help today. "
Care
Culture
Help
" Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at predicting what's going to happen in a church service. "
Pretty
Church
Culture
" 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. "
Build
Strength
Spirit
" Churchgoers in America are notorious for jumping into movements, even ideas that are hard to listen to. But when they actually have to change their lifestyle and do something about it, it rarely translates into action. "
Ideas
Listen
Action
" Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall. "
Church
Consumer
Jump
" Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.' "
Words
Church
More
" Every year in my life, I trust fewer and fewer people. "
People
Year
Trust
" For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them. "
Faith
Growing
More
" Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers. "
Heart
Believe
Become
" I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things. "
Salvation
About
Wrong
" 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. "
Time
Small
People
" If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment. "
God
Stick
Moment
" If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples. "
Experience
You
Want
" 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! "
Amazing
Church
Blessing
" I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing. "
Respond
Someone
Writing
" I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle. "
Life
Battle
Doing
" I want to help people understand how to study the Scriptures with other people, to give them an overview of Scripture and assume that by understanding the Scriptures better, the Holy Spirit will bring to mind the right stories, the right teachings. "
Mind
Want
Understanding
" One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus. "
Hard
Talking
Weakness
" Our culture is all about shallow relationships. But that doesn't mean we should stop looking each other in the eye and having deep conversations. "
Looking
Eye
Deep
" Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me. "
Me
Answers
God
" Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching. "
Gift
Teaching
Parents
" There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write. "
Me
Sense
Write
" There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee. "
Just
Forget
Fruit
" Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions. "
Today
Truth Is
Truth
" When I don't think biblically, I go nuts. I just go, 'This is crazy.' "
Crazy
Go
Just
" When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from the tone of our culture. "
Tone
Culture
Different
" When you read the New Testament, you see the Holy Spirit was supposed to change everything so that this gathering of people who call themselves Christians had this supernatural element about them. "
Change
Spirit
Gathering
" With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit. "
Natural
Spirit
Communication
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