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
If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.
God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally.
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.'
The gospel reveals the glory of God. According to God's Word, he is the sovereign Creator of all things.
The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy.
Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy.
I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer.
If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all
What drives passion for getting the gospel to all people is not guilt, it's glory.
God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.
God has made a way of salvation for the lost. Not a way, but the way. And this is the good news - the gospel.
Consider what it takes for successful businessmen and businesswomen, effective entrepreneurs and hardworking associates, shrewd retirees and idealistic students to combine forces with a creative pastor to grow a "successful church" today. Clearly, it doesn't require the power of God to draw a crowd in our culture. A few key elements that we can manufacture will suffice.
So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.