Following the success of his best-selling Crazy Love, California pastor Francis Chan went searching for what he believes to be the missing ingredient in many modern churches, for his follow-up book.

Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit, released by David C. Cook this month, was prompted after Chan noticed the success of programs in many churches he visited and wondered if the same results could be achieved without the Spirit's help.

"I know there's some that's supernatural, but a lot of the things we do are the result of human effort that would have happened at a business meeting, a rally, a feel-good meeting we can create," Chan said. "There are so many different venues to where what we're doing in church really looks the same as what they're doing in the world."

Having taken aim at the term "radical Christian" in Crazy Love, Chan examines the misconception of "balance" in Forgotten God. When it comes to spiritual matters, he says, the idea is "a cop-out of us not wanting to give ourselves 100% to something."

Read more in the Sept. 21 issue of Christian Retailing magazine.

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