David Platt may refer to:
God has made a way of salvation for the lost. Not a way, but the way. And this is the good news - the gospel.
We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No. '
Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.
The church I lead could have the least gifted people, the least talented people, the fewest leaders, and the least money, and this church under the power of the Holy Spirit could still shake the nations for his glory.
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.
God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally.
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.
If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.
We have an incomprehensibly great God!
Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.
God creates, blesses and saves each of us for a radically global purpose
We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.
There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.
Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell.
Disciple making is not a call for others to come to us to hear the gospel but a command for us to go to others to share the gospel.
There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.
And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.
Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God
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.
We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.