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And while it may be fun to share ideas and interpretations, at some point, someone has to do the seroius work of hermeneutics and exegesis and application, or else we’re wasting our time. If we make the material mindlessly easy to teach, then plenty of people will be qualified to teach! And as a result, classes become exercises in sharing ignorance. Just so, adult Bible classes are often dumbed down the same way. Pleasing the crowd is more important to us that feeding the hungry, it seems. Teen classes are dumbed down so the least motivated student won’t complain too loudly, and the students with a deep longing are left unsatisfied. It’s a fair question, you know, whether we really hunger for God’s word.

Pastor, for ten hours a day, I am preaching my heart out by his grace! We have sat for hours talking through the Word, and God has spoken with such a mighty hand of truth that I can’t even begin to tell you about it all now! 39).Ī member of Platt’s church, not on staff, was so taken with a lesson learned at Secret Church that he became a missionary to Uganda. This is the only proper response the revelation of God in the gospel. We want so much that we abandon everything else to experience him. Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender. (Platt almost sounds like a Church of Christer here, doesn’t he?)īut Platt declares that salvation is not about “accepting” Jesus, as though the Christ needs our acceptance. This is why none of these man-made catch phrases are in the Bible. (pp. Our attempt to reduce this gospel to a shrink-wrapped presentation that persuades someone to say or pray the right things back to us no longer seems appropriate. Pray this prayer, sign this card, walk down this aisle, and accept Jesus as your personal Savior. Suddenly contemporary Christianity sales pitches don’t seem adequate anymore. Platt then criticizes the evangelical notions of how we respond to the gospel. God turned away because he could not bear to see your sin and my sin on his Son. Some say, “God looked down and could not bear to see the suffering that the soldiers were inflicting on Jesus, so he turned away.” This is not true.

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In that holy moment, all the righteous wrath and justice of God due us came rushing down like a torrent on Christ himself. What happened at the Cross was not primarily about nails being thrust into Jesus’ hands and feet but about the wrath due your sin and my sin being thrust upon his soul. Platt explains that the Cross is not merely a demonstration of God’s love.

Therefore, you are radically dependent on God to do something in your life that you could never do.” (p. Therefore, follow these steps, and you can be saved.” Meanwhile, the biblical gospel says, “You are an enemy of God, dead in your sin, and in your present state of rebellion, you are not even able to see that your need life, much less to cause yourself to come to life. The modern-day gospel says, “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. Note the contract, however, when you diagnose the problem biblically. Platt note that this affects our understanding of salvation. … We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him. The gospel reveals eternal realities about God that we would sometimes rather not face. Platt believes we overly emphasize the aspects of God’s character that are most comfortable - his benevolent love and grace. After our first try we decided to do it again, and again, and now we have to take reservations because we cannot contain all the people who want to come.

Our first topic of study was the Old Testament. We set a day - one Friday night - when we would gather from six o’clock in the evening until midnight, and for six hours we would do nothing but study the Word and pray. He decided to try the same thing at his comfortable, wealthy megachurch in Birmingham, Alabama in a class called “Secret Church.” As a teacher, I understand what Platt must have experienced - a preview of heaven.

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Platt begins the chapter by describing a series of classes he taught to Christians in a mission field, to people so hungry for the word that they took two weeks off from their farms to hear Platt teach 12 hours a day for 14 days. Platt is a great story teller, and he makes his points much better than I can communicate in a summary. But although I’ll be covering points from each chapter, you really need to read the book. I’m working through David Platt’s Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream chapter by chapter.

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