Today’s post is from Denise Willbanks. Denise is a recently graduated high school student in our teen ministry, The Journey, at Mountain View Christian Church. Denise has decided that her life needs to be dedicated to missions. She has a huge heart for Rapha House, a ministry that rescues girls from the sex-slave trade in Cambodia. Denise will travel to Cambodia in October with several other people from Rapha House to learn more about this ministry and how she can best fit into it.

This is her review of the book Crazy Love, by Francis Chan. This book has totally transformed her life. I’ll let her tell you all about it…

Crazy Love, by Francis Chan

Wow what can I say… Crazy Love has completely changed my life. I was not a disciple of God at all. I was fooling myself and everyone around me into thinking that I was a Christian. I thought I was a Christian and living how God wanted me to but in reality I was just looking and listening to what I wanted to hear and see. I have grown up in the church; my dad is an elder of my church and my mom teaches Junior Church, and pretty much my whole family goes to my church, or should I say our church.

I was baptized at a young age and I was living my life for God, or so I thought. I read my Bible every day, prayed and was always at church and I had an okay relationship with God. However, this book made me look at my life and come to terms with what it means to become a Christian. I was making God follow my life and I was leading him on my journey instead of the other way around. Crazy Love made me think about how I was living for me and how I was thinking about my life and all the troubles that I had. After reading this book I realized that it’s not about me or my troubles but about God and serving him. God loves us so much; we can’t even comprehend how much and all we give him is maybe an hour of our day. We live our lives without thinking about Him; all we do is go about our day with our to-do lists and appointments. I did not love God until I read Crazy Love. This book made me grasp that I was just doing what I had to do in order to get to heaven; I really didn’t love God.

Since I have finished this book I have actually listened to the Holy Spirit and to what God wants instead of what I want to do with my life. All my life I knew I was going to be a Kindergarten teacher when I grew up, but listening to God, and his plans for my life instead of mine, I am now going to go overseas to Cambodia and help with the sex slave trade. God has been telling me for some time now but I was not listening, just going about my life, ignoring him.

I encourage everyone to read Crazy Love but only if you are ready to change your life. Crazy Love will make you reevaluate your life and how much you give God. This book will take you on a journey that is amazing and bring you closer to God than you have ever been before. Francis Chan is an amazing writer and tells you how it is instead of beating around the bush.

I pray that after reading Crazy Love you have the courage to listen and do God’s will, whatever that may be, and give him everything instead of giving him only half of what he deserves.

If you are interested in reading Crazy Love, by Francis Chan, and seeing what impacted Denise so deeply, you can purchase it at Amazon.com.

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