David Platt Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.

  David Platt

  Church, World, Materialistic

  Twitter post from Mar 14, 2013

• No sound system. No band. No guitar. No entertainment. No cushioned chairs. No heating or air-con. Nothing but the people of God and the word of God. And strangely, that's enough. God's Word is enough for millions of believers who gather in house churches... Jungles... Rainforests, and middle-eastern cities. But is his Word enough for us?

  David Platt

  Air, Guitar, Cities

• Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.

  David Platt

  Church, Attendance, Weight

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.38, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• 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.

  David Platt

  People, Leader, Church

• So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and more material possessions while ignoring the Bible on caring for the poor? The difference is that one involves a social taboo in the church and the other involves the social norm in the church.

  David Platt

  Selfish, Caring, Social Taboos

• Being a member of a church means realizing that we are responsible for helping the brothers and sisters around us to grow as disciples of Jesus. In the same way, they are responsible for helping us. We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.

  David Platt

  Jesus, Brother, Mean

  David Platt (2013). “What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?”, p.39, Tyndale House

• The gospel does not prompt you to mere reflection; the gospel requires a response. In the process of hearing Jesus, you are compelled to take an honest look at your life, your family, and your church and not just ask, 'What is he saying?' but also ask, 'What shall I do?'

  David Platt

  Jesus, Reflection, Church

• Whereas disinfecting Christians involves isolating them and teaching them to be good, discipling Christians involves propelling Christians into the world to risk their lives for the sake of others. Now the world is our focus, and we gauge success in the church not on the hundreds or thousands whom we can get into our buildings but on the hundreds or thousands who are leaving our buildings to take on the world with the disciples they are making

  David Platt

  Christian, Teaching, Focus

• Consider what it takes for successful businessmen and businesswomen, effective entrepreneurs and hardworking associates, shrewd retirees and idealistic students to combine forces with a creative pastor to grow a "successful church" today. Clearly, it doesn't require the power of God to draw a crowd in our culture. A few key elements that we can manufacture will suffice.

  David Platt

  Successful, Church Today, Keys

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

  David Platt

  Grace, Church, Culture

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

  David Platt

  Encouraging, People, Church

  David Platt (2013). “What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?”, p.46, Tyndale House

• Disciple making also involves teaching people to obey all that Christ has commanded us. Now some might say, "Isn't that what preachers are supposed to do?" And in one sense, the answer to this question is yes. God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally. At the same time, he has commanded every follower of Jesus to teach his Word relationally.

  David Platt

  Jesus, Teaching, People

  David Platt (2013). “What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?”, p.46, Tyndale House

• Therefore, when I look for a church, I look for the music that best fits me and the programs that best cater to me and my family. When I make plans for my life and career, it is about what works best for me and my family. When I consider the house I will live in, the car I will drive, the clothes I will wear, the way I will live, I will choose according to what is best for me. This is the version of Christianity that largely prevails in our culture. But it is not biblical Christianity.

  David Platt

  Biblical, Careers, Clothes

• We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God. Our hearts resonate with the idea of enjoying God's grace. We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us. And while the wonder of grace is worthy of our attention, if that grace is disconnected from its purpose, the sad result is a self-centered Christianity that bypasses the heart of God.

  David Platt

  Book, Heart, Self

• Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for? Do you believe him enough to obey him and to follow him wherever he leads, even when the crowds in our culture - maybe even our churches - turn the other way?

  David Platt

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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

  David Platt

  People, Church, World

• If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.

  David Platt

  Commitment, Church, Followers

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.171, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

• I was immersed in comfortable Christianity. Years ago, I found myself living what seemed like the American church dream - pastoring a large church, living in a large house, and surrounded by all the comforts this world has to offer. But inside I had a sinking feeling that I was missing the point.

  David Platt

  Dream, Sinking Feeling, Years

  Source: blog.vyrso.com

• Consider the cost when Christians ignore Jesus commands to sell their possessions and give to the poor and instead choose to spend their resources on better comforts, larger homes, nicer cars, and more stuff. Consider the cost when these Christians gather in churches and choose to spend millions of dollars on nice buildings to drive up to, cushioned chairs to sit in, and endless programs to enjoy for themselves. Consider the cost for the starving multitudes who sit outside the gate of contemporary Christian affluence.

  David Platt

  Christian, Jesus, Nice

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.20, Multnomah

• Do you and I believe him (Christ) enough to obey him and to follow him wherever he leads, even when the crowds in our culture - and maybe in our churches - turn the other way?...For the sake of an increasingly marginalized and relatively ineffective church in our culture, I want to risk it all. For the sake of my life, my family, and the people who surround me, I want to risk it all.

  David Platt

  Believe, People, Risk

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

  David Platt

  Church, Fellowship, Makers

  Twitter post from Oct 11, 2012

• Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; 'Light momentary affliction.'

  David Platt

  Pain, Light, Church

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