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Radical (2010) (edit title/settings)

Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

by David Platt (Author) (edit contributors)

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IS JESUS WORTH THIS TO YOU? "Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for? Do you believe him enough to obey him and to follow him wherever he leads, even when the crowds in our culture--maybe even our churches--turn the other way?" In Radical , David Platt invites you to... read more

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  • - He challenges Americans to look to bible for guidance on how to live a Christian life instead of the AmericanDream.
  • - Radical is a lesson on living your Christian life as Jesus did and not just tacking God onto the American Dream. RG
  • - Loved the book and its way of challenging the American believer out of the comfort zone
  • - This book opened my eyes to what we should focus on in our Christian lives instead of what this world has to offer.

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In Radical, David Platt challenges you to consider with an open heart how we have manipulated the gospel to fit our cultural preferences. He shows what Jesus actually said about being his disciple--then invites you to believe and obey what you have heard. And he tells the dramatic story of... read more

In Radical, David Platt challenges you to consider with an open heart how we have manipulated the gospel to fit our cultural preferences. He shows what Jesus actually said about being his disciple--then invites you to believe and obey what you have heard. And he tells the dramatic story of what is happening as a "successful" suburban church decides to get serious about the gospel according to Jesus. Finally, he urges you to join in The Radical Experiment --a one-year journey in authentic discipleship that will transform how you live in a world that desperately needs the Good News Jesus came to bring.

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  • “If Jesus is who he said he is, and if his promises are as rewarding as the Bible claims they are, then we may discover that satisfaction in our lives and success in the church are not found in what our culture deems most important but in radical abandonment to Jesus.”
  • “I can almost picture the looks on the disciples’ faces. “No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We’ll never get on the list of the fastest growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you.””
  • “Jesus apparently wasn’t interested in marketing himself to the masses. His invitations to potential followers were clearly more costly than the crowds were ready to accept, and he seemed to be okay with that. He focused instead on the few who believed him when he said radical things. And through their radical obedience to him, he turned the course of history in a new direction.”
  • “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.(Rachel Griffin)”
    David Platt
  • “We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existance of spiritual life in a comminity.(Rachel Griffin)”
    David Platt
  • “In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples. (Rachel Griffin)”
    David Platt
  • “Success in the kingdom of God involves moving down, not up. (Cole Gressett)”
    David Platt
  • “The goal of the American Dream of to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God. (Cole Gressett)”
    David Platt
  • “God is the object of our faith, and Christianity revolves around Him. (Cole Gressett)”
    David Platt
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  • While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.
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  • The message of biblical Christianity is “God loves me so that I might make him—his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.” Now God is the object of our faith, and Christianity centers around him. We are not the end of the gospel; God is.
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  • This is how God works. He puts his people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness.
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  • We are giving in to the dangerous temptation to take the Jesus of the Bible and twist him into a version of Jesus we are more comfortable with.
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  • I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what is radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable. We were settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.
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  • And the danger now is that 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.
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  • So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.
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  • We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.
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  • We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.
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  • We have taken the infinitely glorious Son of God, who endured the infinitely terrible wrath of God and who now reigns as the infinitely worthy Lord of all, and we have reduced him to a poor, puny Savior who is just begging for us to accept him.
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"The youngest megachurch pastor in history."

Table of Contents edit see section history

1. Someone Worth Losing Everything For
2. Too Hungry for Words
3. Beginning at the End of Ourselves
4. The Great Why of God
5. The Multiplying Community
6. How Much Is Enough?
7. There Is No Plan B
8. Living When Dying Is Gain
9. The Radical Experiment
Acknowledgments
Notes

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  1. David Platt (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Multnomah Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: May 4, 2010
ISBN: 978-1601422217
Page Count: 240

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  • Library of Congress: BV4501.3 .P63 2010
  • Dewey: 248

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