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A review by shellballenger
Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan
1.0
Type of read: Weekend listen
What made me pick it up: This kept popping up in my library app as a recommendation and I know I've heard a bit about it so it made sense to add it to my TBR.
Overall rating: I was raised Missouri Synod Lutheran and actively practiced that until I was about 18. At 18, I got married, went off to college, and church because less of a building and a group of people and more of a state of mind for me. I've stolen a line from a Miranda Lambert song many times to describe my relationship with Jesus: 'Cause I heard Jesus, he drank wine, And I bet we'd get along just fine...'
I say all that to preface my review with that this wasn't the book for me. Chan and I have very different views on faith. There are some good points in this book but I feel like - and this seems to happen a lot with books of this nature - with Crazy Love, you're expected to either be at 0 or 100, there is no in-between (he actually has a whole chapter on how there is no in-between). Personally, my faith has had some in-between. And I'm fairly certain it will continue to have some in-between as I grow and evolve in my own faith and who I am as a person. Is that right? Is that wrong? I don't know but I don't feel like faith should be forced.
READER'S NOTE: I get a little annoyed when audiobooks continually ask me to do something outside of the audiobook. There's normally a good reason why I'm listening to a book rather than reading it and I don't like having to rely on extra material, material that isn't even photos or appendix items but rather youtube or promotional videos, to make a point.
What made me pick it up: This kept popping up in my library app as a recommendation and I know I've heard a bit about it so it made sense to add it to my TBR.
Overall rating: I was raised Missouri Synod Lutheran and actively practiced that until I was about 18. At 18, I got married, went off to college, and church because less of a building and a group of people and more of a state of mind for me. I've stolen a line from a Miranda Lambert song many times to describe my relationship with Jesus: 'Cause I heard Jesus, he drank wine, And I bet we'd get along just fine...'
I say all that to preface my review with that this wasn't the book for me. Chan and I have very different views on faith. There are some good points in this book but I feel like - and this seems to happen a lot with books of this nature - with Crazy Love, you're expected to either be at 0 or 100, there is no in-between (he actually has a whole chapter on how there is no in-between). Personally, my faith has had some in-between. And I'm fairly certain it will continue to have some in-between as I grow and evolve in my own faith and who I am as a person. Is that right? Is that wrong? I don't know but I don't feel like faith should be forced.
READER'S NOTE: I get a little annoyed when audiobooks continually ask me to do something outside of the audiobook. There's normally a good reason why I'm listening to a book rather than reading it and I don't like having to rely on extra material, material that isn't even photos or appendix items but rather youtube or promotional videos, to make a point.