David Platt Quotes

If we were left to ourselves with the task of taking the gospel to the world, we would immediately begin planning innovative strategies and plotting elaborate schemes. We would organize conventions, develop programs, and create foundations… But Jesus is so different from us. With the task of taking the gospel to the world, he wandered through the streets and byways…All He wanted was a few men who would think as He did, love as He did, see as He did, teach as He did and serve as He did. All He needed was to revolutionize the hearts of a few, and they would impact the world.

The author describes the adoption process in which he and his wife participated as "a paperwork pregnancy".

God's glory is most majestically displayed not through you were through me, but through US. God raises up the Church, and says to all Creation in the heavens, on the Earth, and under the Earth, this is the bride and body of My Son, bought and purchased by His blood to be My people and receive My power, and enjoy My presence, and declare My praise forever and ever.

God grows the Church through holiness in Christians.

I could impart excitement, but not urgency. – Francis Chen

As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.

The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God.

Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.