We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.
Francis ChanRead
I really believe it's time for some of us to stop apologizing for God and start apologizing to Him for being embarrassed by the ways He has chosen to reveal Himself
Interpretation
The quote encourages individuals to embrace and celebrate their faith rather than hide it due to embarrassment.
In this quote, Francis Chan emphasizes the importance of openly acknowledging and respecting the ways in which God chooses to reveal Himself. Rather than feeling ashamed or apologetic for one's beliefs, he suggests that people should instead express remorse for their reluctance to embrace and share those beliefs confidently.
In practice
During a church service, you might share this quote to encourage others to embrace their faith.
We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.
A disciple is a disciple maker.
Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
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.
...I don't have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.
People who are obsessed with Jesus aren't consumed with their personal safety and comfort above all else. Obsessed people care more about God's kingdom coming to this earth than their own lives being shielded from pain or distress.
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
The cause of war is preparation for war.
Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.
We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.
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