Home > Work > Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream QUOTES

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream QUOTES

1 " Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us. "

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

2 " 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. "

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

3 " My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him.  "

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

4 " We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves. "

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

5 " The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world. "

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

6 " We are molding Jesus into our image. He's beginning to look a lot like us because, after all, that is who we are most comfortable with. The danger now is when we gather in our church buildings to sing, and lift up our hands in worship, we may not actually be worshiping the Jesus of the Bible. Instead, we may be worshiping ourselves. "

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

7 " God's revelation in the Gospel not only reveals Who He is, but it also reveals who we are. "

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

8 " If we were left to ourselves with the task of taking the gospel to the world, we would immediately begin planning innovative strategies and plotting elaborate schemes. We would organize conventions, develop programs, and create foundations… But Jesus is so different from us. With the task of taking the gospel to the world, he wandered through the streets and byways…All He wanted was a few men who would think as He did, love as He did, see as He did, teach as He did and serve as He did. All He needed was to revolutionize the hearts of a few, and they would impact the world. "

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

9 " The modern-day gospel says, 'God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. Therefore, follow these steps, and you can be saved.' Meanwhile, the biblical gospel says, 'You are an enemy of God, dead in your sin, & in your present state of rebellion, you are not even able to see that you need life, much less to cause yourself to come to life. Therefore, you are radically dependent on God to do something in your life that you could never do. "

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

10 " But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me. "

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

11 " God beckons storm clouds and they come. He tells the wind to blow and the rain to fall, and they obey immediately. He speaks to the mountains, 'You go there,' and He says to the seas, 'You stop here, and they do it. Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator...until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No. "

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

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

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

13 " Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell. "

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

14 " 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. "

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

15 " As long as you and I understand salvation as checking off a box to get to God, we will find ourselves in the meaningless sea of world religions that actually condemn the human race by exalting our supposed ability to get to God. On the other hand, when you and I realize that we are morally evil, dead in sin and deserving of God's wrath with no way out on our own, we begin to discover our desperation for Christ. "

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

16 " We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship. "

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

17 " God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are. "

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

18 " 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. "

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

19 " We owe Christ to the world—to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations. "

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

20 " As American Christians, we celebrate the idea that "all men are created equal." This statement from our Declaration of Indepenence is grounded in the biblical teaching that every person in the world has been formed in the image of God and therefore has instrinsic worth. it's a beautiful idea.
Subtly, however, this equality of persons shifts into an equality of ideas. Just as every person is equally valued, so every idea is equally valid. Applied to faith, this means that in a world where different people have different religious views, all such views should be treated as fundamntally equal.
In this system of thinking, faith is a matter of taste, not of truth.......
Then I implore you to consider the urgent need before us to forsake the American dream now in favor of radical abandonment to the person and purpose of Christ. "

― David Platt , Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream