What I’m Reading
6 05 2008One of my favorite preachers to listen to is Francis Chan, who is one intense dude - and his intensity is all directed towards Jesus - which is where I want mine to be!
Chan’s first book, Crazy Love, just came out. I read it last week and highly recommend it. You know how sometimes people will say, “It was like drinking from a fire hydrant”? Well, this book is like drinking from a baseball bat. It’s like Chan holds you down with one hand and beats you with a baseball bat held in the other. And I mean that in the best possible way.
The book is about the greatness of God, but even more about how we should respond to a God that amazing. Chan holds up the standards for true discipleship of Jesus, rather than of the modern-day American church. It’s scorching, again in the best possible way.
Go out and get this book, it’s challenged me in a way that no other book has in awhile.
I heard Francis at a conference last week. He’s Fantastic at beating me down, in a good way of course.