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
In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.
Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace.
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 ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.
So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.
Why make disciples? Because heaven and hell exist, and the end of the world is coming.
Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for? Do you believe him enough to obey him and to follow him wherever he leads, even when the crowds in our culture - maybe even our churches - turn the other way?
And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.
The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever.
We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.
What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?
I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.
God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.
So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and more material possessions while ignoring the Bible on caring for the poor? The difference is that one involves a social taboo in the church and the other involves the social norm in the church.