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
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.
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
Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator... until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, "No."
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?
We have nothing to fear, because God is sovereign.