Francis Chan: Why I quit my megachurch and started again
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Sam Hailes2019-01-21T00:00:00
Francis Chan left his thriving US megachurch, turned his back on the fame that ministry had brought him and moved his family to a developing country. But whatever you do, don’t call him a radical
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