Welcome to the Crazy Love Podcast. Many of us come from a church background where our walk with God felt less like a relationship and more like a list of do's and don'ts but if you read the actual words of Jesus you get a much

different impression in this week's episode, Francis Chan takes us to John Chapter 15

and helps us see how a life of joyful obedience to God

is a natural response to his overwhelming love.

You know, when I,

I was kind of ignorant to human trafficking. I didn't even understand the term like years ago and I remember speaking at a thing and the guy, you know, was at dinner with a guy. I'm like, well, what do you do here and he explained it and it just was a shock and so I

remember going back to my hotel room that night and I just started imagining what

if at that time was just Rachel and Mercy I was like what if someone

took Rachel or Mercy okay and they enslaved them somewhere in the world and I'm just

going through I'm just laying in bed thinking

about this like I just you know how you just start daydreaming or you're

falling asleep and you're imagining the scenario and I start thinking man what if someone took Rachel or mercy what would I do and I I just started picturing myself going back to the church and I thought would I really get up and just preach a nice little sermon or would I just start

screaming at everyone like we've got to do something like I there's no way I just pictured myself

like throwing the you know the pulpit and just yelling like come on man

some of you guys have resources some you have a bill we're gonna find it we're gonna get to them and

and how I would devote my life to that and now I wouldn't just kind of go

I think the right thing to do is to search for my daughters. You see what I'm saying?

It's like it's natural when you love to go, well, this is my only natural response.

What else would I do? And so when we talk about, you know, human trafficking, last week we're talking about the kids in Africa and everything that Jen is doing out there, I don't want us to ever be like, hey, let's give some money toward that.

I think the right thing to do is to celebrate Freedom Sunday.

I think it's this.

I think it's that.

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