David Platt. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Multnomah Publishers, 2011. 176 pp. (Paperback).
What would it look like if the body of believers worldwide put everything on the table and united around a gospel-centered purpose?
That’s the question David Platt, pastor of The Church at Brook Hills, Birmingham, asks in “Radical Together,” a follow-up to his New York Times best seller “Radical.” In “Radical,” Platt challenged readers to “[take] back [their] faith from the American dream” and offer their lives and resources to God for the sake of spreading the gospel to the ends of the earth.
In his newest book, Platt continues that challenge by asking churches as a whole to come together and work through how they can change “business as usual” to give everything they have toward advancing the gospel of Jesus Christ. He tackles head-on the fact that sometimes “good” things and programs in the church — even missions-related ones — are the very things that deceptively keep resources from being used to take the Word of God to unreached people groups. “I am convinced that Satan, in a sense, is just fine with missional churches in the West spending the overwhelming majority of our time, energy and money on trying to reach people right around us,” Platt wrote. “Satan may actually delight in this, for while we spend our lives on the people we see in front of us, more than 6,000 people groups for generations have never even heard the gospel and remain in the dark.”
The last quarter of the book is a six-session discussion guide for small groups to work through Scripture and questions together to determine how they can better unite around a gospel-centered purpose in their lives and churches.
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