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WHAT IS JESUS WORTH TO YOU?
It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle would actually look like. They would, he said, leave behind security, money, convenience, even family for him. They would abandon everything for the gospel. They would take up their crosses daily...
BUT WHO DO YOU KNOW WHO LIVES LIKE THAT? DO YOU?
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.
It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle would actually look like. They would, he said, leave behind security, money, convenience, even family for him. They would abandon everything for the gospel. They would take up their crosses daily...
BUT WHO DO YOU KNOW WHO LIVES LIKE THAT? DO YOU?
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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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For many of us life 'slips by' in inconsequential years, our impact on the world being measured not by what we have done -but by resources consumed. This book un picks the 'American dream' (for which you can substitute the 'Western' dream) and opens eyes and provides a challenge of an alternate view, a better way to true contentment.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This is a great book. It has impacted me more then I can say and hope I will be more faithful in carrying out the 'great comission'. This is written by an American to an American audience, but it certainly can be applied to British Christians. What he says is stuff we should already know, do, think like, etc as Christians, but so much of the time in the West we don't because we're too comfortable. It is sad that this book ever had to be written, but I am thankful for it. Mr. Platt does not hesitate to 'call a spade a spade'. He is very clear and easy to read. He has no political agenda. He is, most importantly, Biblical. He writes this to see God glorified. Christ emptied Himself for us and called us to take up our CROSS and follow Him.
If you're not sure about buying this book, you can read the first chapter for free online, just Google it. Even the first chapter is helpful by itself.
If you're not sure about buying this book, you can read the first chapter for free online, just Google it. Even the first chapter is helpful by itself.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Christianity remains a very interesting faith. It's an interesting faith because despite having one main character described in one main collection of works it still manages to arouse a multitude of reactions from those claiming to follow the main character. The one collection of volumes can be read and interpreted in such a variety of ways it is no surprise that people have used vitriolic words to disabuse anyone of the idea of disagreeing with their view on this tome.
Platt's book comes in at a good time for a significant element of mainstream Christianity and although the primary audience is American (after all it is about the American dream) those who choose to follow Jesus from any culture, especially those considered as Western capitalist countries will find similarities in the concerns Platt raises here.
A refreshing quality of the books is that Platt is not stating something as though it is fresh revelation. I'd like to think for quite a number of people who choose to read it the content will act as a wake-up call to the implications of following Christ. Even for those, however, who are familiar with the issues outlined, it should refresh and reinvigorate the need to live out those radical implications of faith.
The challenges Platt sets out in his book bear some consideration - they are practical and have the seeds to be life changing to those who embrace the spirit in which they are offered. At the same time it is not a dictate - it is not an ultimatum as though this is the only way to really understand and follow Christ in this day and age. It is a stimulating challenge to do something beyond the comfortable norm in pursuing Jesus.
The work is by no means perfect and there are just as many questions to consider in terms of if Platt has gone far enough in considering the implications of being Christ-centred especially in the context of him leading a megachurch with mega-million dollars worth of facilities, etc. etc. There is also the question on the enabling, edifying and equipping environment in which these radical implications can be lived out - does it really work under a clergy-laity split maintained under the pastor-as-chief-executive model.
The fact that the book is incomplete is one of the endearing aspects of it - it is something that leads any reader back to the original and contentious individual source of this whole work. This is why I'd have no problems recommending this book for anyone interested in engaging with Jesus in these interesting times especially in countering the cultural claims that can subtly be assumed to be Christian.
Platt's book comes in at a good time for a significant element of mainstream Christianity and although the primary audience is American (after all it is about the American dream) those who choose to follow Jesus from any culture, especially those considered as Western capitalist countries will find similarities in the concerns Platt raises here.
A refreshing quality of the books is that Platt is not stating something as though it is fresh revelation. I'd like to think for quite a number of people who choose to read it the content will act as a wake-up call to the implications of following Christ. Even for those, however, who are familiar with the issues outlined, it should refresh and reinvigorate the need to live out those radical implications of faith.
The challenges Platt sets out in his book bear some consideration - they are practical and have the seeds to be life changing to those who embrace the spirit in which they are offered. At the same time it is not a dictate - it is not an ultimatum as though this is the only way to really understand and follow Christ in this day and age. It is a stimulating challenge to do something beyond the comfortable norm in pursuing Jesus.
The work is by no means perfect and there are just as many questions to consider in terms of if Platt has gone far enough in considering the implications of being Christ-centred especially in the context of him leading a megachurch with mega-million dollars worth of facilities, etc. etc. There is also the question on the enabling, edifying and equipping environment in which these radical implications can be lived out - does it really work under a clergy-laity split maintained under the pastor-as-chief-executive model.
The fact that the book is incomplete is one of the endearing aspects of it - it is something that leads any reader back to the original and contentious individual source of this whole work. This is why I'd have no problems recommending this book for anyone interested in engaging with Jesus in these interesting times especially in countering the cultural claims that can subtly be assumed to be Christian.
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