Letters to the Church
It is when we love those who slander us that we demonstrate the love of Christ (Matt. 5:44–45).
Francis Chan • Letters to the Church
“Devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture” (1 Tim. 4:13). Maybe if we did more of this, we could raise a new generation that is addicted to God’s Word and less fanatical about preachers.
Francis Chan • Letters to the Church
If we are serious about winning the lost, we must be serious about pursuing unity.
Francis Chan • Letters to the Church
We need to return to a God-centered theology rather than a human-centered theology, and we need to be willing to flip some tables and suffer for it along the way.
Francis Chan • Letters to the Church
The call to follow Christ is the call to joyfully endure suffering in this life for the promise of eternal blessing in the next.
Francis Chan • Letters to the Church
Should we meet in a large group or a small one? These are all the wrong questions. We should be asking why Christians are willing to give only ninety minutes a week (if that!) to the only thing that really matters in their lives!
Francis Chan • Letters to the Church
When we gather as the Church, we are supposed to “stir up one another to love and good works” (Heb. 10:24).
Francis Chan • Letters to the Church
Jesus loved so deeply that He was willing to suffer a lifetime of rejection, even rejection from His Father on the cross.
Francis Chan • Letters to the Church
You can’t shape the life of your church around who might leave if things start to feel too much like the New Testament.