A review by b2beauchamp
Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan

3.0

As much as I agreed with many of the points Francis Chan makes, the ironic thing is that the entire middle section of his book calling us to walk as Jesus did seems completely divorced from His crazy love. Though occasionally he will make a side comment that it's out of love that we obey, this is seemingly an afterthought. I appreciate, commend and wholeheartedly agree with His desire that we should walk in the way that we've been called to, the way Chan has written about that walk and the specifics of it leaves the reader at times feeling bludgeoned with a stick and without a more robust tie to God's crazy love as the title suggests this book is actually about, in a seeming hopeless position. The very last chapters begin to bring that tie back together, but I nearly didn't make it there. Truth without grace immediately tied to it is just the law without hope.