David Platt Quotes

God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally.

We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.

Are We Going to die in our religion or are we going to die in our devotion?

We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.

God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.

We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.

Saturate your preaching with the gospel in the church, so that you people speak gospel in the world.

The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers

People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians

Give liberally. Go urgently. Live dangerously.

We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.

Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.

By God’s design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian’s DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.

When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for His sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It's just common sense.

To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath.

The way we use our money is a barometer of our present spiritual condition. Our neglect of the poor illustrates much about where our hearts lie. But even more than that, the way we use our money is an indicator of our eternal destination. The mark of Christ followers is that their hearts are in heaven and their treasures are spent there

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.

Passionate worship always leads to personal witness. Always. And what that means is . . . if we’re not witnessing, there’s a problem with our worship. We’re not seeing God for who He is! We’re not realizing what He’s done! We’re not realizing the magnitude of what He’s done for our souls!

Craig Bellamy's got pace, but he's also rapid as well

Jesus has not given us options to consider. He has given us commands to obey.

There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.

And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.

We learned that orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names. They are easier to ignore before you see their faces. It is easier to pretend they’re not real before you hold them in your arms. But once you do, everything changes.

While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.

We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No.'

The modern-day gospel says, 'God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. Therefore, follow these steps, and you can be saved.' Meanwhile, the biblical gospel says, 'You are an enemy of God, dead in your sin, & in your present state of rebellion, you are not even able to see that you need life, much less to cause yourself to come to life. Therefore, you are radically dependent on God to do something in your life that you could never do.

In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.

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.

It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.

People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is.

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.

The price of our non-discipleshi p is high for those without Christ.

Who God is and what Christ did have huge implications for who we are personally and what we desire sexually.

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.

As long as you and I understand salvation as checking off a box to get to God, we will find ourselves in the meaningless sea of world religions that actually condemn the human race by exalting our supposed ability to get to God. On the other hand, when you and I realize that we are morally evil, dead in sin and deserving of God's wrath with no way out on our own, we begin to discover our desperation for Christ.

The very first word out of Jesus; mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent.

Every Christian has unique opportunities to engage the most pressing social issues of our day by praying, proclaiming the gospel, and participating with God in all that he is doing in the world.

God delights in revealing Himself to you when you are bold enough to bother Him. In fact, I think He would say that the only thing that bothers Him is when you don’t come to Him.

The church I lead could have the least gifted people, the least talented people, the fewest leaders, and the least money, and this church under the power of the Holy Spirit could still shake the nations for his glory.

Nothing is impossible for the people of God who trust in the power of God to accomplish the will of God.

What if the very reason we have breath is because we have been saved for a global mission? And what if anything less than passionate involvement in global mission is actually selling God short by frustrating the very purpose for which he created us?

What if all it took to bring us to our knees and to ignite our affections was the Word opened and the presence of God? What if that was enough for us? What if it didn't take a great band to evoke that kind of response from us in worship? What if His presence - His Word opened - what if it was enough?

We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.

We have a master who deserves radical sacrifice.

In a world where everything revolves around yourself-protec t yourself, promote yourself, comfort yourself, and take care of yourself-Jesus says, 'Crucify yourself. Put aside all self-preservati on in order to live for God's glorification, no matter what that means for you in the culture around you.'

We owe Christ to the world--to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.

God's ultimate concern is not to get you or me from point A to point B along the quickest, easiest, smoothest, clearest route possible. Instead, his ultimate concern is that you and I would know him deeply as we trust him more completely.