Welcome to the Crazy Love Podcast. In the book of Ephesians, the Apostle Paul, praised

that the Church would be strengthened in their inner being, that God would do a miracle

in their heart that would manifest itself in holiness and righteousness. In this week's

episode, Francis Chan reminds us how beautiful it is to know God and to be known by Him.

Like the Apostle Paul, we pray that God would grant you to be strengthened with power

through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through

faith and that you would be rooted and grounded in love.

We gather in homes every Sunday and then once a month, we gather together and so a lot

of you guys don't know each other because you know, you've got your house that you're

becoming a family with because we look in Scripture and we go, you know what, there's

supposed to be this amazing love between us. And so often, you know, we've, you know,

defined churches a place you go and sit in a service and then leave. And it's like, man,

we don't see that in the Bible. The church was supposed to be a family. It was supposed

to be like your brothers and sisters. Man, you give the shirt off your back. If someone

needs a place to live, you let them in your home. It's like, you know, you're taken care

of because we're family. And so we've, you know, broken it down in homes and a lot of

you guys meet, you know, in other houses. And this is the once a month time where we

get to see each other and kind of like a big family reunion where you got creepy uncles,

you know, that you catch up with. And it's like, oh, man, I didn't know, you know, we were

related. You know, we get together and catch up and worship together. But, man, just look

around right now. And just look, I mean, just all these faces you don't normally see

and whatever. And God's doing something with us. And, man, and after we worship together

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