I started reading David Platt's book, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream,
Here are some interesting points that he made that are really making me think:
"I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what is radical about our faith and replaced it with was is comfortable. We were setteling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abondoning ourselves."
When talking about the price of nondiscipleship he says:
" The price is certainly high for people who do not know Christ and who live in a world where Christians shrink back from self-denying faith and setter into self-indulding faith. While Christians choose to spend their lives fulfiling the American dream instead of giving their lives to proclaiming the kingdom of God, literally billions in need of the gospel reamin in the dark."
" We will see a purpose for our lives that transcends the country and culture we live in, and we will see our desperate need for his presence to fulfil that purpose in us. We will discover that our meaning is found in community and our life is found in giving ourselves for the sake of others in the church, among the lost, and among the poor. We will evalutate where true security and safety are found in this world, and in the end we will determine not to waste our lives on anything but uncompromising, unconditional abandonment to a gracious, loving Saviour who invites us to take a radical risk and promise us a radical reward."
Maybe we have it all wrong and are missing out! Maybe we need to be more radical?!
Father,
Break our hearts for what breaks yours!
