Latest David Platt Quotes from Interviews

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• I want to move from what we let go of to whom we hold on to. I want to explore not just the gravity of what we forsake in this world, but also the greatness of the one we follow in this world.

  David Platt

  Letting Go, Moving, Greatness

  "A summons to lose your life". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. March 26, 2013.

• My prayer is that people will see that following Jesus costs you everything you are and everything you have. And my prayer is that people will see that Jesus is worth it.

  David Platt

  Jesus, Prayer, People

  "A summons to lose your life". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. March 26, 2013.

• We act, though, not under a utopian illusion that you or I or anyone or everyone together can rid this world of pain and suffering. That responsibility belongs to the resurrected Christ, and he will do it when he returns. But until that day, we do with an undivided heart whatever God calls us to do.

  David Platt

  Pain, Responsibility, Heart

  Source: blog.vyrso.com

• Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point of Christianity and ironically devolves into a me-centered approach.

  David Platt

  Thinking, People, Missing

  "A summons to lose your life". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. March 26, 2013.

• Every Christian has unique opportunities to engage the most pressing social issues of our day by praying, proclaiming the gospel, and participating with God in all that he is doing in the world.

  David Platt

  Christian, Unique, Opportunity

  Source: blog.vyrso.com

• And while we stand with conviction and courage, we must live with compassion. Amid a world with massive social needs around us, ranging from desperate poverty and orphan crises and millions of girls being trafficked for sex, to the degradation of marriage and the abortion of babies, we need to speak and act with selfless love on all of these issues.

  David Platt

  Girl, Baby, Sex

  Source: blog.vyrso.com

• On popular issues like poverty and slavery, where Christians are likely to be applauded for our social action, we are quick to stand up and speak out. Yet on controversial issues like homosexuality and abortion, where Christians are likely to be criticized for our involvement, we are content to sit down and stay quiet.

  David Platt

  Christian, Issues, Speaks Out

  David Platt (2015). “Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age”, p.13, Tyndale House

• 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.

  David Platt

  Issues, Abortion, Needs

  Source: blog.vyrso.com

• I was immersed in comfortable Christianity. Years ago, I found myself living what seemed like the American church dream - pastoring a large church, living in a large house, and surrounded by all the comforts this world has to offer. But inside I had a sinking feeling that I was missing the point.

  David Platt

  Dream, Sinking Feeling, Years

  Source: blog.vyrso.com

• As I looked at material and spiritual poverty in the world around me, including approximately 2 billion people who haven't even heard the gospel, I knew that I needed to make some major changes in my life.

  David Platt

  Spiritual, People, World

  Source: blog.vyrso.com

• I believe that the gospel and the American Dream have fundamentally different starting points. The American Dream begins with self, exalts self, says you are inherently good and you have in you what it takes to be successful so do all you can, work with everything you have to make much of yourself. The gospel begins with God, the reality that we were created to exalt his name to the ends of the earth.

  David Platt

  Dream, Believe, Successful

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.

  David Platt

  Order, Needs, Culture

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• The call of Christ is to deny ourselves and to let go of our lives. To relinquish control of our lives, to surrender everything we are, everything that we do, our direction our safety our security is no longer found in the things of this world. It is found in Christ. And that is great risk when it comes to the things of this world.

  David Platt

  Letting Go, Safety, Risk

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• 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.

  David Platt

  Jesus, Believe, Decisions We Make

  Source: www.christianpost.com