It is for those who are bored with what American Christianity offers. This book is written for those who want more Jesus. Our motivation changes from guilt to love.” The results are intimate prayer and study of His Word. Rather, He tells us to ‘love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ He called this the ‘first and greatest commandment’ (Matt. Jesus didn’t command that we have a regular time with Him each day. …when we love God, we naturally run to Him-frequently and zealously.
But, it is absolutely vital to grasp that he didn’t call you there so you could settle in and live your life in comfort and superficial peace.” It is true that God may have called you to be exactly where you are. Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.” > Click here to get your copy of Crazy Love. << This is one book I would buy for friends and would like to read with our Sunday school class at church. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through.” “But God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. Chan’s conversational writing is easy to digest but he keeps coming back to these points that we seem so often to rationalize in our lives as followers of Christ.Ĭhan calls us again and again to step out of our comfortable, highly managed lives and into a life of discipleship. He weaves personal experience with the scripture of the Bible in a way that is easy to follow and compelling.Ĭrazy Love is a challenging read. He reads the Bible and when he comes across a command, he obeys it.Ĭhan’s writing style is much like he preaches.
He is a straight shooter and a hard hitter. I listened to his sermons on iTunes and have shared his Balance Beam video countless times.Ĭhan is decidedly a Jesus follower and this book is written to the church in America, those who would call themselves evangelicals and Christians. Now we have returned permanently and it was just the book I needed to remind me of what I want to be important in my life. I read it first a few years ago while we were home visiting from Turkey. I just finished listening to Francis Chan’s Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God for the second time.
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