David Platt
David Platt
David Joseph Plattis an American pastor. He is currently the president of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board, and he is also the author of the New York Times Best Seller Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream. Platt released a follow-up book, Radical Together: Unleashing the People of God for the Purpose of God in April 2011. And in February 2013, he released Follow Me: A Call to Die. a Call to Live, which included an...
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth11 July 1979
CityAtlanta, GA
Jesus has not given us options to consider. He has given us commands to obey.
Don't underestimate what God can do with ordinary people.
If there were 1,000 ways to God we would want 1,001.
The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.
The resources of heaven are ready and waiting for the people of God who desire to make much of him in this world
If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.
Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.
God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally.
We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.
The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers
Clearly our greatest need is not more regulations in order to merit salvation.
God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.
We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No.'
We have a master who deserves radical sacrifice.