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
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.
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.
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.
We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.
And as we meet needs on earth, we are proclaiming a gospel that transforms lives for eternity. The point is not simply to meet a temporary need or change a startling statistic; the point is to exalt the glory of Christ as we express the gospel of Christ through the radical generosity of our lives.
God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.
Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.
Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.
The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom.
The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we shrink back from it.
The primary reward of the gospel - God himself