Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Platt
Around
Revolves
Abandoning
Settling
Central
Message
Messages
Christianity
Actually
Catering

More quotes by David Platt

Image
To everyone wanting a safe, untroubled, comfortable life free from danger, stay away from Jesus. The danger in our lives will always increase in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.
David Platt
Image
Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace.
David Platt
Image
I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.
David Platt
Image
Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?
David Platt
Image
God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.
David Platt
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels.
David Platt
Image
Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.
David Platt
Image
A high view of God’s sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically pastors, who believe that God’s sovereign over all things will lead Christians to die for the sake of all peoples.
David Platt
Image
There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.
David Platt
Image
God involves us in his mission not because he needs us but because he loves us.
David Platt
Image
To be a disciple of Jesus is to make disciples of Jesus.
David Platt
Image
By God’s design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian’s DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.
David Platt
Image
It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.
David Platt
Image
We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.
David Platt
Image
If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all
David Platt
Image
If we are going to accomplish the global purpose of God, it will not be primarily through giving our money, as important as that is. It will happen primarily through giving ourselvs. This is what the gospel represents and this is what the gospel requires.
David Platt
Image
May even the concept of unreached peoples be totally intolerable to us.
David Platt