You and Me Forever: Marriage in Light of Eternity co-authors Francis Chan and his wife, Lisa, insist that they wrestle with fear and selfishness just like everyone else despite the public putting them on a pedestal after they left the stability, comfort and spotlight of leading a California megachurch in 2010 to surrender to God and let Him call them anywhere in the world and do anything He wants.
“I’m as selfish as the next guy. I’m just thankful for the grace of God, that He opens my eyes occasionally to make the right decisions, decisions that I won’t regret,” Francis told The Christian Post in an interview this past week.
“We fight every day for any ounce of holiness.”
Lisa shared that some of the most rewarding decisions they’ve made have also been very painful.
“That’s why I get so emotional when I talk about something like inviting Shawn and Carolyn because I know what it’s like to wrestle with my own fear and selfishness,” Lisa, who is working with her husband to bring the Gospel to inner city apartment complexes, told CP.
She tearfully recalled the choice to allow a former inmate and his family to move into their San Francisco home and the resulting blessings from that decision. “To have them come and live with us and now to see them serving God, loving each other, discipling others, it just makes you, you know, your heart so overwhelmed with the thought and the joy of why would God allow us to be part of that.”
She also wondered what would have happened if she had let fear or selfishness hold her back. “If I had said no. If I had said this is my house, I don’t want to give up my bedroom, where would we be? What would have happened?”
Living for Christ doesn’t mean being devoid of emotions, she explains. “We have to fight through the fear and the selfishness and it can be done and I want other people to know that it’s possible.”
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SOURCE: The Christian Post
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