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
So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and more material possessions while ignoring the Bible on caring for the poor? The difference is that one involves a social taboo in the church and the other involves the social norm in the church.
God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.
It is impossible to be a follower of Christ while denying, disregarding, discrediting, and disbelieving the words of Christ.
The call of Christ is to deny ourselves and to let go of our lives. To relinquish control of our lives, to surrender everything we are, everything that we do, our direction our safety our security is no longer found in the things of this world. It is found in Christ. And that is great risk when it comes to the things of this world.
What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?
I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.
While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.
Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for? Do you believe him enough to obey him and to follow him wherever he leads, even when the crowds in our culture - maybe even our churches - turn the other way?
Somewhere along the way we have subtly and tragically taken the costly command of Christ to go, baptize, and teach all nations and mutated it into a comfortable call for Christians to come, be baptized, and listen in one location.
Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.
God involves us in his mission not because he needs us but because he loves us.
We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.
To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath.
God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.