Radical - Chapter Two

I was hoping to get this posted much quicker, but we've had some trouble with our internet that finally got resolved today. I've read through the first three chapters of Radical by David Platt and it continues to be an eye-opening and challenging perspective about how I live out my faith. Here are five of the quotes that stuck out to me from chapter two.

"What if we take away the cool music and cushioned chairs? What if the screens are gone and the stage is no longer decorated? What if the air conditioning is off and the comforts are removed? Would his Word still be enough for his people to come together?"

"In the American dream, where self reigns as king, we have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our own assumptions and our desires. As a result, we desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical."

"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."

"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."

"One Christian in India, while being skinned alive, looked at his persecutors and said, "I thank you for this. Tear off my old garment, for I will soon put on Christ's garment of righteousness.""