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 enlarge | Authors: Francis Chan, Danae Yankoski
Publisher: David C. Cook
Category: Book
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Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 1087
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 186
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1434768511
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.4
EAN: 9781434768513
ASIN: 1434768511
Publication Date: May 2008
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This is love. Great job Chan! November 11, 2008
I am usually not a person that reads during my leisure or buys a book and finishes it, but instead I have a tendency to get bored with one and move on to the next. This was not the case with this book! Chan does a great job of capturing your attention for the things that matter; like, if God did create us and did do all of these wonderful things for us, and did die a sacrificial death just for us, then why is our response to those things just to sit in church and try not to cuss. It's this type of thinking that stirs the hearts and minds of people to actually act out their faith in love. Great book, read it in a week, which is highly unusual for me.
Lukewarm Christians beware! November 4, 2008
If you don't like having your toes stepped on, you might want to wear steel toed boots while reading this book. In Crazy Love, Francis Chan calls the 21st Century church out of its lazy slumber and exhorts her to make a difference for the kingdom.
He begins by reminding us how small we are compared to the vastness of the Universe. He asks us to stop and think about the God who created the Universe, who loves us so much that He sent His Son to die for us in order to restore our relationship with Him. Yet what is the response to this Crazy Love by so many in today's Church?
Jesus calls it being lukewarm and warns that if we don't change, He will vomit us out of His mouth.
After grabbing us with that graphic and arresting image, Chan makes several practical, yet radical, suggestions about how we can be effective ministers for Christ in our culture and communities, turning Christ's Crazy Love for us into a Crazy Love for Him.
If you've been feeling like something is missing in your relationship with God, or need to be awakened out of a slumber, let this book shake you up. As Chris Tomlin says in the Foreword, "Crazy Love may just be the most challenging book outside of God's Word that you will read this year."
Life-Challenging October 27, 2008
In the first 3 chapters, Francis recounts the glories of God. I never want to loose me passion for God himself and Francis does s fine job of reminding us why God is great. (Very much in the flavor of John Piper or Sam Storms). Francis then takes this greatness and calls us to take a look at ourselves, the church. We are God's glory and reputation. He has changed and enriched my understanding of what it means to "love your neighbor as yourself." This book will probably be for me the best book I have read in 2008!
Great Buy October 24, 2008
My book arrived in great condition within only 3 days after I purchased it. It was a great buy.
Overwhelmed by this book, and this Wonderful God! October 21, 2008
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I want to thank Frances for a wonderful book that left me "overwhelmed." I know he would only want the attention from this book to go to the Allmighty God that he serves.
This book will really challenge your faith and your true love for God. He really shows us that we "christians" should take Jesus' words so serious that transformation from this "lukewarm" lifestyle to this obsessive walk of Love with Christ must take place here on earth.
I told my wife that I was "shaken" and rattled a bit after reading a couple of the chapters.
This book will force you to examine your heart, your faith, and your walk with Jesus. Are you ready to give up "everything" you have to follow Christ? Is your love for Him the type of Love that is so strong that you would actually sacrifice your own "Isaac?" What road are you on? The wide one or the narrow one?
Frances gives so much insight to true Kingdom realities and most importantly explains that if you are left feeling like you don't measure up, you can change by simply asking God through His Holly Spirit for that genuine relationship with God and to see God for who He truely is. I think this is what Frances did, and it shows. If you are ready to "step up" READ this book!
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