Crazy Love pages 83-98

This chapter is called "Serving Leftovers to a Holy God", and it's all about giving God parts of your life instead of your whole life. Francis Chan puts it very bluntly and says, "churchgoers whoare "lukewarm" are not Christians. We will not see them in heaven". This really stuck out to me because many people think that as long as you go to church and don't do too many bad things then you will go to heaven. But Chan says that if you are not a Christian with all of your heart and life then you are not going to heaven. Chan backs up his statement with scripture; in Revelation 3:16 it says, "Jesus says 'So, because you are luke warm-neither hot nor cold-I am about to spit you out of my mouth'". This scripture basically says that God doesn't want people who aren't on fire for him to enter his kingdom of heaven. This means that Jesus wants all or nothing; he doesn't want us to pretend that we are christians if we aren't fully committed to serving him. Francis also made an excellent analogy of being a "lukewarm" christian to being a marine and only doing half of the work. You can't go into the marine and only do the work that you want to do and then skip out on the hard stuff. Another blunt comment he made was that people are only willing to change their lives if they think it will affect their salvation. One of the most popular questions that some Christians ask is, "What do I have to do to make it to heaven?". This question implies that we are only willing to do the bare minimun of what we think it takes to go to heaven and have eternal life, instead of going to hell and having eternal suffering.