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. Chan writes with infectious exuberance, challenging Christians to take the Bible seriously. As a pastor, Chan says that conducting weekly funerals for people younger than himself has likewise sobered him to life’s unexpectedness and frailty. In this chapter, Chan says that obsessed people are able to. As with the other assertions that he has made about Christ and Christian living, Chan backs up the characteristics of these obsessed people with examples taken from scripture. His mother died giving birth to him, his stepmother died when he was nine, and his dad when he was 12. In this chapter, Chan spells out a description of an obsessed Christian. 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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