David Platt Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• 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.'

  David Platt

  Jesus, Mean, Self

• 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.

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  Successful, Church Today, Keys

• Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.

  David Platt

  Self, Culture, Achieve

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

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  Grace, Church, Culture

• That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.

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  Order, Needs, Culture

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Real success is found in radical sacrifice. Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God. The purpose of our lives transcends the country and culture in which we live. Meaning is found in community, not individualism; joy is found in generosity, not materialism; and truth is found in Christ, not universalism. Ultimately, Jesus is a reward worth risking everything to know, experience, and enjoy.

  David Platt

  Country, Jesus, Real

• God has put you in this culture at this time for a reason.

  David Platt

  Culture, Reason

  David Platt (2015). “A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Same-Sex Marriage”, p.25, NavPress

• 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

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