He chose to become a servant, rather than a star. What amazes me is that Francis humbled himself in the midst of great power and fame. When this magazine last interviewed him, in 2010, he put it this way: ' One of the problems at our church is when I hear the words ‘ Francis Chan’ more than I hear the words ‘ Holy Spirit.’” In other words, people were flocking to preacher-man Chan, rather than seeking an encounter with God.
Everything centered around ‘a speaking gift and a sermon,’ he says. After growing a church from 30 to 6,000 members in California, Chan felt the Holy Spirit leading him and his family to doing something different.Ī Premier Christianity interview with Chan shares, “He was leading a typical Western, evangelical church, and that, according to Chan, was exactly the problem. Ecclesiastes 1:9 says, “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again there is nothing new under the sun.” However, this new church model is new for him. In all honesty, what Francis Chan has done really isn’t “new” per say. Today we are going to look at Biblical reasons for Francis Chan ’s new church model and what we can learn. Chan is a global church leader today who has written impactful Christian books such as Crazy Love, You and Me Forever, and Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit.
