"Crazy Love - Overwhelmed by a Relentless God" by Francis Chan -- Book Review

Francis Chan is a senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, California. In 2008 he authored the “Crazy Love-Overwhelmed by a Relentless God,” which immediately became New York Times’ bestselling Christian book and “a message that Christians desperately needed to hear.”[1]

In his daring bestseller, Chan advocates that “the world does not need Christians who tolerate the complacency of their own lives.”   He challenges and inspires us to reject our vein excuses, break out of the dull habits of our egocentric perceptions, and to start living a faithful and a sacrificial life instead.  He offers a radical antidote to revive us from our Spiritual Coma, into “a life where we stake everything on God’s power and presence.” 

Chan correctly states that God does not have an “identity crisis”; He already knows how great He is.  It is us who are in desperate need of perspective readjustment.  We need to challenge ourselves to growth, leaving behind our Christian versions of American Dream, our selfish ambitions, our wretched individualism and numbing materialism. 

How do we worship God whom we can never fully understand?  How can we love Him with fervent passion and complete abandon?  How do we listen and obey God, especially “in a society where it’s easy and expected to do what is most comfortable?” Francis Chan addresses these questions and further challenges us to be drastically transformed by daily seeking the will of our Maker, by spending ourselves completely in the process, and ultimately reaching a place of intimate fellowship with our crazy loving Father.

Reading “Crazy Love” was not comfortable, it was downright convicting.  However, if you venture to call yourself a Christian, this is an absolute “must read” for you.  Do you dare to disturb your universe?  Read and be transformed! 




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[1] www.Challies.com