Welcome to the Crazy Love Podcast.

Today, experts believe there are more than 200 Christian denominations in the U.S. and

a staggering 45,000 globally.

As astonishing as that number is, is this what Jesus had in mind when he established the

church?

In part one of this week's episode, Francis Chan reminds us of the power and weight of

what it means to be the church, the body of Christ, as Jesus intended.

We hope that this message will strengthen your faith and give you a clearer revelation

of what it means to be united in the church.

And stay tuned after today's teaching for an update from Francis on the Hundred Cities

Training, a new initiative from Crazy Love, Y-Wam Kona, Antioch Movement and Upper Room

to train and equip young leaders to plant churches in the 100 Most Unreach Cities

in the U.S.

We're currently accepting applications now through September 3rd for the fall cohort,

so we encourage you to go to hundredcities.org for more information.

That's hun d-r-e-d-cities.org.

I was thinking last night about how weird this must be for some of you.

Depending on how you grew up, I mean, I think even just for some of you, it's weird

to take your shoes off, right?

And I think one of the things that had a deep impact in my life is just traveling the

world.

And, you know, like our whole family was just in Hong Kong recently, and it's not weird

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