I wanted to share some more of my favorite points and quotes from Francis Chan’s book Crazy Love.  I have been so challenged by this book .  Yesterday I started listening to some of his sermons via iTunes (video podcasts -all free) and wowzers!  I am further challenged and convicted and more in love with Jesus than I ever was before.  He has a way of teaching God’s word that makes it so clear and alive, highlighting points I had never thought about before.  He is a very passionate teacher.

Some of my favorite quotes from the preface and chapter one:

• We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.  You’ve probably heard the expression “I believe in God, just not organized religion.”  I don’t think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.  The expression would change to “I can’t deny what the church does, but I don’t believe in their God.”  At least then they’d address their rejection of God rather than use the church as a scapegoat.
• Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves.  His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can’t contain Him.  Isn’t it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?
• He does not have to know us so well, but He chooses to.
• Don’t we live instead as though God is created for us, to do our bidding, to bless us, and to take care of our loved ones?…He has more of a right to ask us why so many people are starving…we are in no place to demand that He give an account to us…Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?
• God never excuses sin.  And He is always consistent with that ethic.  Whenever we start to question whether God really hates sin, we have only to think of the cross, where His Son was tortured, mocked, and beaten because of sin.  Our sin.  No question about it:  God hates and must punhish sin.  And He is totally just and fair in doing so.