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
David Platt quotes about
Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.
My life is a blank check before God... No strings attached.
What if all it took to bring us to our knees and to ignite our affections was the Word opened and the presence of God? What if that was enough for us? What if it didn't take a great band to evoke that kind of response from us in worship? What if His presence - His Word opened - what if it was enough?
God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.
God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.
Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy.
Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.