He gives a profile of the lukewarm and concludes,”A lukewarm Christian is an oxymoron there’s no such thing. In the second section of the book Chan challenges professing Christians to examine themselves. He reviews God’s character from the Bible and challenges our small understanding of who God is. In the first section, Chan addresses the problem. Chan argues that the problem with nominal or lukewarm Christianity is an inaccurate view of God (22).Ĭrazy Love has a simple format. In the preface, Chan says that this book is “written for those who want more Jesus, and are bored with American Christianity” (21). His book Crazy Love challenges the “Christian” status-quo. So sings Beyonce in her song “Crazy in Love.” Francis Chan doesn’t quite use this line in his book Crazy Love, but switch out Beyonce’s mythical man for the eternal God, and the lyric works nicely: God’s love should make us look crazy right now.Ĭhan is the teaching pastor of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley California and a regular speaker at Passion conferences. “Your love has got me looking so crazy right now.”
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