Book Review: Crazy Love | by Zack Bair
Crazy Love by Francis Chan
Rating: 10/10
Content: That’s no mistake, I really rated this book a 10/10. It is now, by far, my favorite book. I found that the central theme of the book can be summed in this statement by Chan,”The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.”
This is a simple truth, yet the pages that follow challenge, inspire, and teach how to respond to God’s love for us with all we have – time, talent, treasure.
Throughout the month of January, we will be giving a copy of this book to anyone who comes to 19north, with a series and small groups around its topic. This book put into perfect words what God has been doing in my heart. Here are some of the things that Chan said that I’ve been so “fired up” over:
- I believed this for years because, as the song puts it, “the Bible tells me so.” The only problem is that it was a concept I was taught, not something I implicitly knew to be true. For years I “got” God’s love in my head, checked the right answer on the “what God is like” test, but didn’t fully understand it with my heart.
- Jesus didn’t command that we have a regular time with Him each day. Rather, He tells us to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” He called this the “first and greatest commandment” (Matt. 22:37-38).
- The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
- The best things in life are gifts from the One who steadfastly loves us. But an important question to ask ourselves is this: Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
- True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity.
- My response to the cynics, in the context of eternity, was, am I the crazy one for selling my house? Or are you for not giving more, serving more, being with your Creator more?
- The idea of holding back certainly didn’t come from Scripture. The Bible teaches us to be consumed with Christ and to faithfully live out His words. The Holy Spirit stirs in us a joy and peace when we are fixated on Jesus, living by faith, and focused on the life to come.
