Reviews, Interviews, News, Commentaries, Excerpts, My Top 5 Books, Wilson's Bookmarks, Book AwardsDavid Platt Wants You to Get Serious About Following Christ
You've given up on the American Dream, and you're ready to embrace authentic faith in Jesus. The author of Radical tells you what comes next.
[ posted 2/7/2013 5:00PM ]
I get excited to see members of this body dive into questions like that, and to share with one another. We challenge one another, we encourage one another, and we build in a good gospel-saturated accountability for each other. And in the process we realize, this is what we're supposed to do. This is what we are created for as followers of Christ. Then as people put that into practice, we see people come to know Jesus and begin to grow in their relationship with Christ. And they realize, "If I'm going to be intentional about anything, I want to be intentional about growing as a disciple of Jesus, and making disciples of Jesus."
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Garrett S
Does anyone truly believe that David Platt is rejecting the neccesity of baptism, in this book? That he is somehow ignoring the Holy Spirit's role in carrying the Gospel to the nations? Of course not. David's point of emphasis here is to peel away the layers of people who are decieved into believing their cultural, hand waving Christianity is sufficient in pleasing God by using Biblical, historical, and personal testimony of those who, by the fruit of their lives, we know followed Jesus. Platt isn't "missing" Pentecost or water baptism. He is concerned with the heart of following Jesus, not the theology of missions because, if you are following Jesus, baptism and the Holy Spirit will happen. This isn't to say a book on the theology of missions isn't welcome, it just isn't Platt's aim. It's Platt's focus on the heart of the believer, instead of the theology of the believer, that makes both Radical and Follow Me accessible to the Charismatic and to the Baptist.
Don Modarelli
I am really happy to see Mr Platt seriously reconsider the triteness of the Sinner's Prayer, but I wish he would "get serious" and reconsider the scriptural lack of justification for this entrance into covenant relationship with God. In the book of Acts, everyone who heard the Gospel of Jesus responded with water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ - it is the pledge of a good conscience toward God (2 Pet 3:16). We all can benefit from his call to radical response to the call of Christ in our life, not just ticking the "Radical" box, but radical abandon MUST begin with radical obedience to the New Testament plan of salvation Acts 2:38 - otherwise we will be noble and sincere without the Spirit to lead us into all truth.
Clive Jacobsen
While Rick Dalbey is spot-on with his appraisal of "Radical" in pin-pointing the necessity of Acts 2:1-4 & 38 in our born-again experience, nevertheless David Platts' book does come to grips with the obvious necessity of living out our life for Christ as 'sold-out' saints whose life is not their own---but is to be lived out in front of the masses of unsaved people all around every one of us. For that reason I do recommend the book, with a small disclaimer about its obvious lacking.