Crazy Love: Book Review
I'm not sure what has been going on lately, but all of the books that I seem to be "randomly" selecting to read all have had a similar theme: Christianity as we have known it in Western culture has missed the point of what it means to be Christian. Crazy Love: Overwhelmed By A Relentless God by Francis Chan at first might seem an unlikely entry into the aforementioned thematic "coincidence." After all, it purports from it's title to be about God's overwhelming and relentless love. (Chan is the pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, CA, and the author of a book on the Holy Spirit called The Forgotten God , which I reviewed in this blog many moons ago.) But that's kind of the point that Chan is trying to make. LOTS of Christian-y people give lip service to the radical love that they have received from God and are in turn supposed to share with the world. VERY FEW people actually live the new reality of the true Jesus-Followe...