Wheaton College Alumni Magazine Autumn 2013 | Page 6

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Read excerpts of
Rev. Chan’s address
on pages 58-59
Francis Chan, author of Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God and
founding pastor of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, California, delivered
the 2013 Commencement addresses at the graduate and undergraduate
ceremonies, May 11 and May 12. Chan exhorted the Classes of 2013, which
included 622 undergraduates and 116 graduate students, to cling to
humility and childlike faith and not lose their zeal.
“You’re at one of these times in life when you just achieved something pretty
huge. But with the accomplishment—and this is going to happen over and
over in life—there’s going to be a temptation to become self-confident, to rely
upon yourself and your ability and your achievement