![]() ![]() In stark contrast, the book offers real-life accounts of believers who have given all-time, money, health, even their lives-in obedience to Christ’s call.Chan also recounts his own attempts to live “crazy” by significantly downsizing his home and giving away his resources to the poor.Earnest Christians will find valuable take-home lessons from Chan’s excellent book. He describes at length the sorry state of “lukewarm” Christians who strive for a life characterized by control, safety and an absence of suffering. He and his wife, Lisa, have been married nearly thirty years and coauthored You and Me Forever. All epigraphs are excerpted from Francis Chan, Letters to the Church. He is a New York Times bestselling author of several books, including Crazy Love, Letters to the Church, and Until Unity. Except for brief excerpts for review purposes, no part of this book may be. Chan writes with infectious exuberance, challenging Christians to take the Bible seriously. Francis Chan has been a pastor for over thirty years. As a pastor, Chan says that conducting weekly funerals for people younger than himself has likewise sobered him to life’s unexpectedness and frailty. ![]() His mother died giving birth to him, his stepmother died when he was nine, and his dad when he was 12. Chan’s own life compels him to live with urgency, and with good reason. Chan, senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, Calif., offers a radical call for evangelicals to consider and emulate in this debut guide to living “crazy” for God. ![]()
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