David Platt, Radical
I can stand with the starving or with the overfed.... I can embrace Jesus while I give away my wealth or walk away from Him while I hoard my wealth (140).
"... going is urgent, not optional."
Equality of persons does not equal equality of ideas. Faith is a matter of truth, not of taste.
" soft-drink company in Atlanta has done a better job getting brown sugar-water to these people [who have never heard the Gospel] than the church of Jesus Christ has done in getting the Gospel to them" (159).
"The questions is not, 'Can we find God's will?' The question is, 'Will we obey God's will?'" (160)
"... if we really become like Jesus, the world will hate us... [as they] hated Him....The danger in our lives will always increase in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ" (167).
"The purpose of the church is to mobilize a people to accomplish a mission. Yet we seem to have turned... [the] troop carrier... into a luxury liner" (170).
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