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
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This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness
We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.
This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.
Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.
God's ultimate concern is not to get you or me from point A to point B along the quickest, easiest, smoothest, clearest route possible. Instead, his ultimate concern is that you and I would know him deeply as we trust him more completely.
We do not have time to waste our lives coasting out casual, comfortable Christianity.
The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone.
The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life.
As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.
Disciple making is not a call for others to come to us to hear the gospel but a command for us to go to others to share the gospel.
Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it’s needed most?
We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.