7:00AM EDT 3/28/2016 JESSILYN JUSTICE

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 churchleaders.com.

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