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
If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all
We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.
If there were 1,000 ways to God we would want 1,001.
A high view of God’s sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically pastors, who believe that God’s sovereign over all things will lead Christians to die for the sake of all peoples.
Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.
God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally.
God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.
Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.
Are We Going to die in our religion or are we going to die in our devotion?
Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.
No matter how many red Xs we write on our hands to end slavery, as long as these same hands are clicking on pornographic websites and scrolling through sexual pictures and videos, we are frauds to the core.
Don't underestimate what God can do with ordinary people.
The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers
We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No.'