David Platt Needs Quotations

That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift because it meets our greatest need.

Instead of imagining all the things we can accomplish, we ask God to do what only he can accomplish. Yes, we work, we plan, we organize, and we create, but we do it all while we fast, while we pray, and while we constantly confess our need for the provision of God.

Our greatest need is not to try harder. Our greatest need is a new heart.

God involves us in his missions not because He needs us, but because He loves us. And in His mercy He has invited us to be involved in His sovereign design for the spread of the gospel to the ends of the earth.

We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.

God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.

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 involves us in his mission not because he needs us but because he loves us.

Anyone wanting to proclaim the glory of Christ to the ends of the earth must consider not only how to declare the gospel verbally but also how to demonstrate the gospel visibly in a world where so many are urgently hungry. If I am going to address urgent spriitual need by sharing the gospel of Christ or building up the body of Christ around the world, then I cannot overlook dire physical need in the process.

We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.