Welcome to the Crazy Love Podcast. We all go through times when it's a struggle to

connect in our relationship with God, and often we think that adding our own

ideas or cleverness will fix the problem.

In this week's episode, Francis Chan helps us discover the unique love that Jesus offers

and how simply prioritizing his word and presence can change your life. I don't know about you, but I've just been in this mode where communion means more to me literally every time.

And I feel like I have a deeper experience with Jesus every time I take it.

And I'm praying to God, I go, God, I want this for the rest of my life. I wanted to just increase.

Not like everything else in life that kind of decreases and loses its luster.

There's something about the body and blood of Jesus

that enables us to enjoy him even more deeply, commune with him more deeply, and this is his desire.

That's the thing, you gotta understand, there's a God in heaven on his throne,

and he actually wants every one of us in this room to actually grow in our

experience and understanding of him like every day. So it's possible to actually grow in this until the day we see him face to face.

But right now this is this is what we have it It is sacred. There is something about it. There's something about his real presence here in the room with us.

And just to remind you, this is his living word. Okay? This is his living word. These are the things that are sacred on this earth.

His body, his blood, his living word. Last week we talked about just learning how to separate what's common from what is holy, what is sacred.

Because we live in a time where many people believe their opinions are the most sacred things on the

earth.

What they think and what they feel to them is the most sacred

thing to them. That is true of most of the people I meet.

They don't say, well, here's what I think, but who cares what I think?

What does the Bible say? What does God himself say? Very few people think that way. They value their own

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