Francis Chan: Stop Making Your Family an Idol

Author and speaker Francis Chan issued a strong message to the church recently: Stop making your family an idol.  

“… It’s not about going out in the harvest and being a worker [anymore]. It’s about ‘Let’s protect our family now … let’s keep us safe. Let’s find some gated community and keep them all in our house—away from all the bad people.’ There’s no excuse for that,” Chan said in a video posted to .

“That’s why so many of the kids, when they turn 18, they just ditch God altogether. Because they didn’t see anything real in your life. They didn’t see that [sense of] adventure, and you didn’t put yourself in positions where God had to come through—and then [when] He comes through and your whole family is going, ‘Wow, that was amazing! I am never going to leave that God.’ No, you just create a little bubble for yourself … how is God even going to operate in that?” 

Watch the video to see more.