... My logic would say, ‘no way. I basically had three goals in mind. Stephanie is a wife, a mother of three boys, and in her free time she enjoys reading, running, and really good coffee. The Church Intensive is a 4-day experience for pastors and future pastors to study ecclesiology alongside of We Are Church, the church planting network started by Francis Chan in 2013. No way would God want me to do this.’ But that's not the way He works.”, Earlier this year, Chan moved to the Sham Shui Po neighborhood in Hong Kong with his family. The Author Francis Chan is a pastor, speaker, and bestselling author. We were closer as a family, more dependent on God, and more fixated on eternal matters. [12][verification needed] Furthermore, in 2008 it was reported that Cornerstone would give away 55% of its income to charitable causes. Francis Chan has been on a downward spiral for a long time. “And I know it looks like there are other methods that might work better. Would Cornerstone become like so many other churches, stuck with a giant empty building? I've been preaching that for seven years. He also founded Eternity Bible College in 2004, and served as its early chancellor until 2010, and has been a board member of several Christian and social justice organizations, including Children's Hunger Fund and Gospel for Asia. There was so much life at our services. During the season when I was still wrestling with whether that would be the best thing to do, I went to preach at an event. Our podcast was gaining subscribers every day from all over the world; we were pouring our hearts out to God with our singing, and there was great conviction. Living without risk has become accepted and even applauded. [3][8], Chan was sent to Hong Kong to be raised by a grandmother, a Buddhist for several years. Even if there were only a dozen people in our living room, wouldn’t it be better than what we had been experiencing? “I really believe there are some serious mistakes we made in the U.S. [that have] led to the church being in the state that it's in right now: Super divided, and the reputation of evangelical Christians in the U.S. has never been worse,” Chan, the bestselling author and former California megachurch pastor, said during a Zoom meeting with 150 church leaders from all around the world. Lisa and I were having a rough time at our church. Subscribe to "The Weekly" Newsletter! [3] He also founded Eternity Bible College in 2004, and served as its early chancellor until 2010,[4][5] and has been a board member of several Christian and social justice organizations, including Children's Hunger Fund and Gospel for Asia. The members were also fighting as they were divided on who was more wrong: the elders or the pastor. I was anxious for change but I didn't have a good plan, and I wasn't patiently helping the people get their minds around such a major paradigm shift. “It looks like this family is in shambles, and who would want to join (it)?” he said. Francis Chan appears in video message on March 20, 2020. He then acknowledged that, “There were some things about Communion that always bothered me when I read about it in Scripture.” Chan described the Scripture passages that did not fit in with his understanding of Communion as an Evangelical, and explained how he began to study the Early Church. Fifteen minutes later, I got a phone call from my friend Jeff, who was a member of Cornerstone. In two months, the church had reached 100 people and in 2000, the church had 1,600 congregations. Many couples began adopting children out of the foster care system. But something was off. e did not get along well with his father growing up but says that his fear of his father has helped him understand a level of fear of God. [3][8], His father then remarried again, to Josephine Leung [梁克閲], who “raised [the] four children lovingly with Godly influence.“[3] In raising the four, his father and new stepmother had family support from his father's younger sister and her husband, Marion and William Wong, along with a large extended family and church family. At the time, I didn't realize how difficult it was going to be. But God is waking up His people—people who will risk anything and sacrifice everything to be the dynamic, world-changing Church of Scripture. There was no church I would rather have been a part of. We will also be utilizing this resource for video updates, worship sessions, bible studies, and staying connected throughout the week! In short, he basically threw the fine folks of Cornerstone under the proverbial bus. We saw God answer prayers in so many powerful ways, even though it didn’t result in many true conversions. During this time, his father married Amy Law [羅笑容] and gave Francis a half-sister, Gloria. During the discussion, Chan warned that the fighting and discord within churches today is tearing apart the “family of God.”. “But I thought, well at least I could send you a quick video and just share some thoughts that God has put on my heart for the church during this time,” he said. I was also very unclear as to how to lead Cornerstone into the future. Then one day, I really felt like the Lord was speaking to me. I only trust what I see written in the Bible. After that, things kept falling into place, and I felt greater and greater peace about leaving. God used the death of his parents early in childhood to give Francis a … I saw such fearless dedication and boldness from the pastors in India, who had renounced everything for the Lord. Thank you again for all that you do, and God bless you. It wasn’t something I planned on doing. This was my chance to build exactly the kind of church I wanted to be part of. Leaving Cornerstone was definitely not an easy decision. “Number one is that you stay loving, that during this time that you really be thinking, ‘God, I love you. Patrick pointed out, “He’s teaching them about not only the Holy Eucharist, he’s also teaching them about the Mass. He said it felt like the rules were suddenly changed on him. Twenty years after launching Cornerstone out of a living room, here we were again. [17] In 2008, Eternity launched an abroad program in Ecuador. Francis Chan is the former teaching pastor in a church called Cornerstone which he formed with his wife in 1994. While the daily outreaches were going well, and we enjoyed living by faith, we hadn’t yet planted a church.

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