Can what’s happening in your local church or life be explained in normal terms?
In this final chapter of his book, Chan challenges us to think about our personal life and our church’s life and wonder this question. Essentially he’s asking if our church is supported by the same gifts that other religions or organizations run [...]
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“Forget about God’s will for your life!”
That’s the provocative chapter title and lead in statement of chapter 6 in the book, Forgotten God. Whoa! What’s that mean exactly?
The author is not saying to ignore God- exactly the opposite. What Chan is challenging us to do is not always be thinking solely about the future of [...]
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So what is your motive?
This is the question that confronted me as I read the next chapter in Francis Chan’s book, Forgotten God. And it’s a good question. While we’re quick to answer that yes we want the Holy Spirit to act powerfully in our lives, that we want him to have more and more [...]
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Does it really matter what you believe about the Holy Spirit? Or other things for that matter? Isn’t it really about what you do?
Certainly we need our practice to line up with what God wants, but we cannot have relationship with God if there aren’t beliefs as well, if there isn’t an understanding of God [...]
So what are you afraid of? Chan delves into our fears in chapter two of his book, Forgotten God.
We know the Holy Spirit is good. We know it. We know we should want God to be more and more in control of our life constantly, but. . .
We have fears that we have to deal [...]
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In the first chapter of Francis Chan’s book, he starts to push immediately. What I like about the way he pushes on the subject is he puts out Scriptures for us to consider. Think about the implications of these verses. he says he just wants us to examine ourselves and our beliefs.
And so that’s what [...]
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Have we forgotten about the Holy Spirit?
This is the point of discussion in a book that’s been getting a fair amount of buzz of late. The book is, Forgotten God, by Francis Chan (who’s also written Crazy Love). His premise is that while we’ve done a fine job overall of teaching the correct doctrine about [...]
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