Standing with Christ in a Den of Wolves
Popular pastor and New York Times bestselling author Francis Chan urged thousands of Christians gathered on the National Mall Saturday to stand together as "rejects" in the face of the world.
Chan, the founder of Radius International and former teaching pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, California, took the stage at Together 2016, an all-day gathering that featured about 40 popular Christian speakers, artists, authors and performers organized by Pulse and its founder Nick Hall.
As Hall told the crowd earlier in the day that Jesus was offering America a "reset," Chan, the author of Crazy Love, told the gathering in the late afternoon that the church needs a reset.
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"I think we all agree that the church needs a reset in a lot of ways," the 48-year-old Chan said in the sweltering heat. "We have become somewhat irrelevant, sadly. But the path to relevance is not by trying to fit in. It's by standing out. It's is not be becoming popular but it is by becoming rejected."
