Telling his friends about Christ then became an urgent matter for Chan. He accepted Christ as his savior when he was a teenager. “Īt the time, Chan was attending a youth group and reading the Bible. Chan comments on his thinking at the time His uncle murdered his aunt and took his own life. And when Chan was high school age, his aunt and uncle got into a fight. His father died from cancer when Chan was 12. His father remarried, but his step mother died when Chan was 9 years old. Who is this man who is so passionate about Jesus and how did he get that way?Ĭhan was surrounded by death growing-up. We can live a normal lifestyle and yet still build hospitals in Africa, build school houses, dig wells, care for the poor, and reach out to the inner city.
Chan remarked,įor God to answer that prayer is such a rush. I would just buy stuff for myself I don’t need.īy the way, that $1 million he was told might come their way turned into $5 million.Ĭhan and his wife hoped to be generous someday but felt that wealth would not come to them. This is not because I am such a godly man. He commented at a recent New Canaan Society conference in San Francisco, So he signed the book royalties over to a charitable trust before the money came in. He and his wife were happy to live simply. He believed that money could get a hold on him and get in the way of this relationship.
To Chan the most important thing in life is to have a relationship with Jesus. Chan didn’t want to have anything to do with it. What would you do if you were suddenly told you would receive $1 million? When Francis Chan’s book Crazy Love began selling, his agent told him he could earn $1 million in royalties.
0 kommentar(er)
