David Platt, Radical
"... internal transformation... has external implications" (110).
"Regardless of what we say or sing or study on Sunday morning, rich people who neglect the poor are not the people of God" (115)....We... pretend that we are.... We... turn a blind eye to... words in the Bible and go on with our affluent model of Christianity and church" (115-116).
"... possessions are to be spent on building, not a place [church buildings]..., but a people who are taking God's glory to the world" (117).
"... outdated models of religion that wrongfully consume our time and money when God has called us to be a people who spend our lives for the sake of His glory among the needy outside our gates" (118).
Gundry in Platt: "'That Jesus did not command all His followers to sell all their possessions gives comfort only to the kind of people to whom He would issue that command" (120).
The Jesus of the Bible is not "the Jesus we have created and are comfortable with" (120).
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