It’s lightweight and simple, but simultaneously grounded and deep. Does your love for God show in your daily life and in how you treat people? Wonderful, you worship through work and practice.īut how do all of those tie together? Do you actually pursue an honest, open, and fully intimate love-relationship with God? Most importantly, do you know Him personally? Do you realize His infinite grace and astoundingly overwhelming love for you? Do you accept that? Do you want that?Ĭrazy Love is a clean, easy-to-read, and somewhat quick rundown on how God’s love for us and in turn our love for God is manifested. Do you have affection and fuzzy feelings about Jesus and His love? That’s great, you love God emotionally. Do you know a lot of theology with a head full of things about God? That’s good, you know God intellectually. In exposing this truth, Chan also overturns some myths about Christianity.Ī big part of this book is about quality over quantity. But to challenge it to a greater and more glorious perspective. Not to condemn what you learned in church, mind you. The rest of the book goes on in a similar manner: to take your average Sunday School expectations, flip them on their head, and show a higher reality in light of scripture. Concentrate on being speechlessly in awe before His glorious presence. Stop being trivial about the relationship.

Of course, he doesn’t recommend you stop talking and walking with God. Short SummaryĬhan starts off his super-spiritual Christian book in a shocking and unconventional way: by naming the first chapter “Stop Praying.” So without further ado, here is my Crazy Love by Francis Chan summary and review. However, my main focus will be on the book which is the “primary” source of content. I cover all of the materials here in one review since it all is the same material and works so closely together. Neither of those extra study materials are needed, but are designed to help individuals and especially groups to get the most out of the book. I read this book with a few friends and also went through the interactive workbook and the DVD together. It strips away the excess of church culture and trims the fat of misleading Christian lingo to face the reality of being with and abiding in God. Most Christian living books fall somewhere between the lines of “new believer” and “Bible scholar,” but what’s interesting about Crazy Love is its ability to inspire, encourage, and correct believers at every stage of faith.įrancis Chan has become sort of a staple of radical modern scripturalism in America, and Crazy Love is one of the staples of Chan’s written works to date. That’s sort of the takeaway from this easy-to-read yet lifestyle-challenging book. God’s love for us is crazy! And in turn, we should seek to have a crazy kind of love for Him as well.

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