What to read next
by Francis Chan
Crazy Love is Francis Chan's wake-up call to Christians who have settled into a safe, lukewarm faith, urging them to reckon with the sheer size of God's love and let it reshape how they spend their lives. Groups that finish it often come away wanting either to keep wrestling with that same all-in challenge, or to move toward a book that gives them concrete next steps for living it out. The books below split fairly evenly between those two directions: some match Chan's urgency and bluntness, others slow the pace down or narrow the focus to a single practice like generosity or unhurried living. Any of them works well as a follow-up because they share Chan's core conviction that real faith costs something and shows up in daily choices, not just belief.
Our Crazy Love guide runs 12 sessions with 85 discussion questions.
These are guides from our own catalog, ordered by how much each book shares with Crazy Love: subject and themes first, then the kind of group it suits, then the same author. It is an editorial comparison of what the books are about — not a ranking of which is better, and not a claim about what other groups chose.
by John Mark Comer
Like Chan, Comer is unhappy with a Christianity that stops at correct belief, but instead of a single urgent push, he offers a slower, more structured path built around a personal Rule of Life. At 12 sessions and 96 questions it runs about the same length as Crazy Love, though the tone is more reflective and practice-oriented than bracing.
by Henry Blackaby & Claude King
This classic shares Chan's insistence that faith is meant to be lived, not just believed, but it reframes the challenge around discerning where God is already at work rather than confronting complacency head-on. At 14 sessions it is longer and more methodical, with a calmer, more devotional tone than Chan's urgent style.
by Randy Alcorn
Alcorn takes one thread from Chan's larger argument, that a wholehearted love for God shows up in how we handle money, and builds an entire short study around it. At just 9 sessions and 60 questions it is a quicker, narrower read, useful for a group that wants to go deep on generosity without committing to a full 12-week study.
by John Ortberg
Ortberg shares Chan's conviction that comfort and safety are the real enemies of a vibrant faith, using Peter's step out of the boat the way Chan uses the vastness of God's love, as a call to risk. The tone is a bit warmer and more story-driven than Chan's, though the session count and question total are almost identical.
by David Platt
Platt's argument runs parallel to Chan's: too many people have prayed a prayer without ever becoming disciples, and the gap between fan and follower needs to close. Follow Me is slightly shorter at 11 sessions and leans more on direct Gospel exposition, giving it a firmer, more expository feel than Chan's conversational urgency.
by John Mark Comer
Comer's second book here keeps the same call to reorder your life around God, but zeroes in on hurry and busyness as the specific obstacle rather than lukewarmness in general. It is the longest study in this list at 13 sessions and 104 questions, and its tone is more diagnostic and pastoral than Chan's high-intensity challenge.
by David Platt
Radical is close in spirit and bluntness to Crazy Love, both books confronting comfortable, culturally shaped faith and asking readers to count the real cost of following Jesus. At 10 sessions it is a touch shorter, and Platt spends more time naming specific cultural habits to give the challenge a practical edge.
by Kyle Idleman
Idleman's fan-versus-follower distinction is another way of asking the same question Chan asks about lukewarm faith, and the book has a similar confrontational, self-examining tone. It matches Crazy Love almost exactly in length, at 12 sessions and 85 questions, making it a natural next study for a group that wants more of the same intensity.
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