Crazy Love by Francis Chan

Week 6: Chapter 6 — When You're In Love

Read Chapter 6 of Crazy Love. Key passages: Matthew 22:37; Philippians 3:7-8; Song of Solomon 8:6-7.

Chan shifts from diagnosis to vision in this chapter, painting a picture of what a truly love-driven life looks like — not as grim duty, but as joyful, all-consuming devotion. Come ready to dream about what that could look like for you.

Discussion Questions

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1.Chan uses the analogy of being newly in love — the way a person in the early stages of a relationship thinks constantly about the other person, rearranges their schedule for them, and gives with abandon. How does that kind of love describe what our relationship with God could and should feel like? Does it feel aspirational, foreign, or both?

2.Paul describes in Philippians 3 counting everything he once valued as "garbage" (skubalon — a very strong word) compared to knowing Christ. Have you ever had a season where your love for God felt like that — where everything else genuinely paled? What was life like in that season?

3.Chan argues that the problem with lukewarm Christianity is not just disobedience — it's that we have stopped being in love. How is falling out of love with God different from simply sinning? How do you "fall back in love" with someone — or with God?

a.Revelation 2:4-5 tells the church at Ephesus they have "forsaken their first love" and commands them to "do the things you did at first." What were the things you did when your love for God was fresh? Are any of those practices missing from your life now?

b.What role do spiritual disciplines (Scripture, prayer, worship, service) play in rekindling love — and what is the danger of treating them as ends rather than means?

4.Chan contends that when we are truly in love with God, obedience stops feeling like a burden and starts feeling like a joy. Do you find that to be true in your experience? What is the relationship between love and obedience — which comes first?

5.The chapter paints a picture of a person whose life is so shaped by love for God that it becomes unmistakably different from the surrounding culture. What would be different about your daily life — your conversations, your finances, your ambitions — if you were living in that kind of love?

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Closing Prayer

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Jesus, we want to be in love with You — not just committed to You, not just compliant with Your rules, but genuinely, deeply, joyfully in love. Forgive us for the ways we have let that love grow cold and replaced it with routine. Remind us today of what You have done for us — the cross, the empty tomb, the daily kindness we so rarely notice. Let those truths set our hearts on fire again. We want everything else to look like garbage compared to knowing You. Begin that work in us now. Amen.

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