BOOK REVIEW: Radical Together by David Platt

If you want to keep going to church, comfortable remaining unchallenged and concerned primarily with your preferences, don’t read this book.  If you want remain ignorant—and blissfully so—about the plight of fellow Christians around world struggling with persecution and poverty, don’t read this book.  If you want to keep seeing the Bible as a lifeless, unread book instead of the key ingredient for a transformed and Spirit-led, don’t read this book.

If you want to feel the gut-wrenching pull of the Spirit to do something different—something, well, radical—then you must read this book.  In fact, every American Christian should read this book, along with its companion piece, Radical.

Yes, Radical Together has many peers: The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns and Crazy Love by Francis Chan are a couple also-awesome examples.  What makes David Platt’s offering a cut above in many ways is the way it focuses on the power of the local church walking in step with Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, directed by the Word of God.  His examples from his own church are both powerful and humble.

I think the key idea of the book is our willingness as faith communities and individuals to lay everything down before God and let Him determine what should be done, what should be given up, what should be stopped, and what should be added.  Are we willing?  I know I am much closer as a result of reading Radical Together.  I pray the same for you.

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