“Whenever we start to question whether God really hates sin, we have only to think of the cross, where His Son was tortured, mocked, and beaten because of sin.
233) And if it’s not an inaccurate view of God’s awesomeness that’s lulled us to sleep, then perhaps we’ve failed to recognize His character.
Consider His awesomeness and glory in Creation, Chan challenges us: “Shouldn’t it be easy to love a God so wonderful? When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.” (K.L. 162) We fail to recognize God’s awesomeness in real life and confine Him to the small space inside the doors of our church building. While we meet regularly to worship and while we have so many programs which gather us in the name of Jesus, Chan writes that, “the crux of it all is we have an inaccurate view of God.” (K.L. It was almost as if Chan were right there with us! This review will try to capture some of the major themes in Crazy Love.Ĭhan’s accusation that we’ve forgotten God (not to be confused with his book Forgotten God, about the Holy Spirit) cuts deep into the Church’s “comfortable” nature today. Our group enjoyed studying Crazy Love by reading the chapter on our own, then meeting to watch the video and have a discussion over the information together. Of course, no book that calls for a “return” to obeying the words of Jesus should ever wane in popularity, but sadly the very fact that they do tells us a lot about the status of the Church today! To help strengthen the effectiveness of his book, Chan connects with his readers in a special, personal way by posting videos for each chapter which he’s shot in places like his home and town (these can be found at or on YouTube). In fact, it’s right on par with that flavor-of-the-day Radicalby David Platt, for in Crazy Love, Francis Chan challenges his readers to remember “the crazy, totally undeserved love of God” (Kindle Location 704) Whom our apathetic American Church has clearly forgotten. I joined a small group of men from my church to go through this book, and we all found it a very challenging and inspiring read.
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