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Francis Chan
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Multiply
Multiply by Francis Chan is a practical, Scripture-saturated call to return to the Great Commission as the organizing purpose of every Christian's life. Built around Jesus's command to "go and make disciples of all nations" (Matthew 28:18–20), the book argues that discipleship is not a program or a curriculum — it is the normal Christian life. Chan, joined by co-author Mark Beuving and online teaching partner David Platt, walks readers through what it means to be a disciple, how to read and understand the Bible, and how to live out the core doctrines of the faith in a way that reproduces itself in others. The book is organized into five major parts: Living as a Disciple-Maker, Living in the Church, Living in the Old Testament, Living in the New Testament, and Living as the Church in the World — making it both a handbook for personal discipleship and a guide for leading others.
View Discussion GuideYou and Me Forever
You and Me Forever by Francis and Lisa Chan is not a typical marriage book — and that is precisely the point. Rather than offering techniques for better communication or conflict resolution, the Chans make a bold, countercultural argument: the secret to a great marriage is to stop making your marriage the main thing. When two people fix their eyes on eternity and pursue God with radical devotion, they become the kind of spouses — and people — they were always meant to be. The book's thesis is simple but demanding: only when two people are right with God will they truly be right with each other.
View Discussion GuideLetters to the Church
Francis Chan wrote Letters to the Church out of a place of deep longing — longing for the Church to become what God always intended her to be. Drawing on the model of Paul's letters to first-century congregations, Chan writes as a pastor who loves the Church deeply but is troubled by how far she has drifted from the awe-inspiring, Spirit-filled community described in the New Testament. His central thesis is that we have traded the dangerous, glorious, costly Church of Acts for a comfortable, consumer-driven experience — and that the only way forward is a radical return to Scripture's vision of the Bride of Christ. This is not a book about fixing programs. It is a book about recovering a posture of surrender, sacrifice, and Spirit-dependence.
View Discussion GuideForgotten God
Francis Chan's Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit (2009) begins with a disarmingly honest question: if the Holy Spirit were completely removed from your church, would anyone notice? Chan argues that most Western Christianity has domesticated, ignored, or quietly sidelined the third person of the Trinity — and that this neglect is not a minor omission but a catastrophic loss. The book is a passionate, pastoral call to recover a living, dangerous, transforming relationship with the Spirit of God — not as a theological concept, but as a personal, powerful divine presence who was promised to believers and who makes the Christian life actually possible.
View Discussion GuideCrazy Love
Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan is a passionate call to abandon the lukewarm, comfortable Christianity that has become the norm in much of the Western church. Chan's central thesis is simple but unsettling: God loves us with a wild, all-consuming, "crazy" love — and the only sane response is to love Him back with our whole lives, holding nothing in reserve. Drawing on the awe-inspiring scale of the universe, the warnings of Jesus, and the radical lives of ordinary Christians, Chan challenges readers to stop playing it safe and start living the kind of life that only makes sense if God is real.
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