I have been reading Dr. Platt's book Radical over the past week and it is excellent. I do disagree on a few points, overall however, I'm enjoying it. Ultimately I think his overarching theme could be summed up with a question that I have been wrestling with for nearly 5 years now:
What if we actually took the words of Jesus and applied them directly to our lives?
Examples:
"Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple." - Luke 14:33There are literally hundreds more.
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple." - Luke 14:26
"For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it." - Matthew 16:25
More on the book later. . . .
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