Crazy Love Chapters 3-4

In lieu of a little six flags trip and an extremely busy week last week I did not get to post on chapter 3, so we do a little combo work this week and look at chapters 3 and 4 of this book. I pray you are being challenged as you read through and you are growing in your faith and knowledge of Christ.

Chapter 3
As you read through this short chapter I think you can understand it's purpose is to get you to put all that you have read in the first two chapters together and place salvation in it's proper perspective. Seeing God as father is not influenced by earthly dad's but I believe it greatest emphasis is that you get to be His child and you are given an inheritance. Reminding yourself of this truth will keep you everyday stuck with the love of Jesus.

Chapter 4
I appreciate chapter four so much. I have read it over and over again and challenged every time. Why? That's what the word of God does to us. Chapter 4 is one passage of scripture after another breaking down our mundane assumptions of what the Christian life is described as in scripture. We have formed our own definition over the years of a Christian that seems to be very different from that put forth in the pages of the Word. In the video study of this chapter, Francis Chan said that he stands in the foyer of his church very often and wonders how many of the people attending will actually go to heaven? This is a question I am haunted with over and over again. How many members of Shiloh Baptist Church will really go to heaven? I pray for your brokenness in the chapter and pray that the word of God cuts us deep and causes us to seek Him in a way we never have before.

For next week read chapter five. This chapter is worth you reading two or three times by the way.