1. “God has put you in this culture at this time for a reason.” – David Platt
2. “My life is a blank check before God… No strings attached.” – David Platt
3. “The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers.” – David Platt
4. “We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.” – David Platt
5. “Repentance leads to a changed way of life. Repentance requires change.” – David Platt
6. “We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.” – David Platt
7. “Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell.” – David Platt
8. “If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.” – David Platt
9. “Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They’re hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken.” – David Platt
10. “Don’t underestimate what God can do with ordinary people.” – David Platt
11. “Give liberally. Go urgently. Live dangerously.” – David Platt
12. “Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.” – David Platt
13. “God is committed to providing abundant resources in support of those who are living in accordance to his purpose.” – David Platt
14. “You and I can choose to continue with business as usual in the Christian life and in the church as a whole, enjoying success based on the standards defined by the culture around us. Or we can take an honest look at the Jesus of the Bible and dare to ask what the consequences might be if we really believed him and really obeyed him.” – David Platt
15. “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
16. “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
17. “Our goal as disciples is never just to believe God’s Word; our goal is to obey God’s Word.” – David Platt
18. “To be a Christian is to be loved by God, pursued by God, and found by God.” – David Platt
19. “far more important than looking and searching for God’s will is simply knowing and trusting God.” – David Platt
20. “God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.” – David Platt
21. “God’s revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.” – David Platt
22. “There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.” – David Platt
23. “For God to be holy does not just mean He is without error. It means He is without equal. May it not be said of any one of us that there is not respect for the author of the universe. He is sovereign over all nature, over all nations and over every single one of our lives.” – David Platt
24. “Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God” – David Platt
25. “Somewhere along the way we have subtly and tragically taken the costly command of Christ to go, baptize, and teach all nations and mutated it into a comfortable call for Christians to come, be baptized, and listen in one location.” – David Platt
26. “The mega-strategy of Jesus: make disciples.” – David Platt
27. “Nothing is impossible for the people of God who trust in the power of God to accomplish the will of God.” – David Platt
28. “When you come to Jesus, you don’t come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus” – David Platt
29. “We will mulitply the gospel only when we allow others to get close enough to us to see the life of Christ in action.” – David Platt
30. “We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.” – David Platt
31. “This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.” – David Platt
32. “If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.” – David Platt
33. “The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it’s more than having a nice life.” – David Platt
34. “Disciple making is not a call for others to come to us to hear the gospel but a command for us to go to others to share the gospel.” – David Platt
35. “God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.” – David Platt
36. “I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life.” – David Platt
37. “People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is.” – David Platt
38. “God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.” – David Platt
39. “The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy.” – David Platt
40. “We are giving in to the dangerous temptation to take the Jesus of the Bible and twist him into a version of Jesus we are more comfortable with.” – David Platt
41. “It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.” – David Platt
42. “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
43. “Christianity does not start with an invitation we offer to Jesus, but with an invitation Jesus offers to us.” – David Platt
44. “Do we believe the reward found in Jesus is worth the risk of following Him?” – David Platt
45. “We have a master who deserves radical sacrifice.” – David Platt
46. “If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.” – David Platt
47. “I want to be apart of something that can only be explained by the hand of God!” – David Platt
48. “We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that’s full of sin.” – David Platt
49. “If people are dying and going to hell without ever even knowing there is a gospel, then we clearly have no time to waste our lives on the American dream.” – David Platt
50. “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
51. “The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone.” – David Platt
52. “But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, ‘I wish you would have kept more for yourself.’ I’m confident that God will take care of me.” – David Platt
53. “Forgiveness is God’s greatest gift because it meets our greatest need.” – David Platt
54. “Live today for what is going to matter 10 billion years from today.” – David Platt
55. “We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.” – David Platt
56. “Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another.” – David Platt
57. “We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.” – David Platt
58. “The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price.” – David Platt
59. “God involves us in his mission not because he needs us but because he loves us.” – David Platt
