Francis Chan Quotes

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.

If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples.

For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.

There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.

Even in my own church I heard the words, ‘Francis Chan’ more than I heard the words, ‘Holy Spirit.’

If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.

Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers.

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.’

I’ve never felt a need to really respond to someone else’s writing.

There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.

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!

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.

Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn’t mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.

Every year in my life, I trust fewer and fewer people.

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

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.

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.