Crazy Love by Francis Chan
Week 3: Chapter 3 — Crazy Love
Read Chapter 3 of Crazy Love. Key passages: Romans 5:6-8; 1 John 4:9-10; John 3:16.
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Having established God's greatness and our smallness, Chan now turns to the staggering center of the story: that this infinite God loves us — specifically, obsessively, and at great cost. Sit with that before you discuss it.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Chan describes God's love as "crazy" — not sentimental or safe, but wild and relentless in a way that defies logic. In what ways does the love described in Romans 5:8 ("while we were still sinners, Christ died for us") qualify as "crazy" by any normal human standard?
2.Chan uses the analogy of a parent's overwhelming love for a newborn child to illustrate a small shadow of how God feels about us. Did that illustration resonate with you? What emotions did it surface? If you are a parent, how did it reframe your understanding of God's love for you?
3.One of Chan's key moves in this chapter is distinguishing between knowing facts about God's love and actually feeling loved by God. Why is that gap so common? What causes it in your own experience?
a.When did you last feel genuinely loved by God — not just theologically convinced of it, but emotionally moved by it?
b.What tends to block or diminish that sense for you?
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