Quotes from David Platt

Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another.

Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.

We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.

God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.

We do not have time to waste our lives coasting out casual, comfortable Christianity.

God has put you in this culture at this time for a reason.

I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life.

The Life of Christ determines everything about us.

We've taken the lifeblood out of Christianity and put Kool-Aid in its place so that it tastes better to the crowds, and the consequences are catastrophic. ~Follow Me, pg. 7

The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.

We go wherever God leads whenever God moves us...because we love His glory more than we love our lives.

If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.

Nothing is impossible for the people of God who trust in the power of God to accomplish the will of God.

The gospel beckons our sin-sick souls to simple trust in Christ, the only One who is truly radical enough.

Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ.

God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.

Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.

We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.

Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.

If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.

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.

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it's needed most?