Leaving Sundays Crazy Love - The Point of it All

We try to set our lives up so everything will be fine even if God doesn't come through. But true faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His promises. - Francis Chan

Chan has a chapter where he introduces us to people who are really living out their faith in tangible ways. People who gave up comfort and ease for a life dedicated to helping others.

I felt so inspired reading the chapter because there is truly more to life than materialism and receiving attention.

This past week I was watching Straight Outta Compton and as ice cube was doing my favorite NWA song Gangsta Gangsta he says the line: Life ain't nothing but money and bitches.

That's tragic that an entire generation of people grew up believing that nonsense and they still believe it today.  It's a recipe for an empty, miserable, and often tragic life.  We don't know it because People just aren't as loud about their lows as they are about their highs. Ugly Reality doesn't sell as well as fairy tales.

Life is definitely more than money and bitches.

As Chan says

It reminds me that there is so Much more to our existence than what we can see. What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.

The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.

Isn't that why most of us are tired of Christians and church? We are tired of the complacency, hypocrisy, loud declarations with no action, low energy, and general mundane action.

Chan poses this question near the end of the book: when it's time to give an account of Our lives and God asks: What did you do with what I gave you?

As pastor Javier from Shiloh church said  "Are you going to say 'well I kept the pew for 50 years but didn't do much else'?"