Irene Cox-What a great example of ministry to youth. http://ping.fm/KdfgL

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." http://ping.fm/MxPyg

Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am." http://ping.fm/d7fTu

Will We Go?

"When Jesus looked at the harassed and helpless multitudes, apparently his concern was not that the lost would not come to the Father. Instead his concern was that his followers would not go to the lost."

from Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream by David Platt

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One Year Challenge

"The challenge is for one year, and it involves five components. I dare you over the next year to…
1 pray for the entire world;
2 read through the entire Word;
3 sacrifice your money for a specific purpose;
4 spend your time in another context;
5 commit your life to a multiplying community.

from Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream by David Platt

Free to be Radical

"your life is free to be radical when you see death as reward. This is the essence of what Jesus taught in Matthew 10, and I believe it is the key to taking back your faith from the American dream."

from Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream by David Platt

Church as troop carrier into the church as luxury liner

"When I think about the history of the SS United States, I wonder if she has something to teach us about the history of the church. The church, like the SS United States, has been designed for battle. The purpose of the church is to mobilize a people to accomplish a mission. Yet we seem to have turned the church as troop carrier into the church as luxury liner. We seem to have organized ourselves, not to engage in battle for the souls of peoples around the world, but to indulge ourselves in the peaceful comforts of the world."

from Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream by David Platt

Ichthus

How far we have come when we paste this symbol identified with martyred brothers and sisters in the first century onto the backs of our SUVs and luxury sedans in the twenty-first century.

from Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream by David Platt

"We are discovering the joy of a radical gospel inside of us that produces radical fruit outside of us." David Platt #Radical

"How many of us are embracing the comforts of suburban America while we turn a deaf ear to inner cities in need of the gospel?" David Platt

“God loves me so that I might make him—his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.” David Platt #Radical

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"They needed 150 families, and within two weeks 160 families from our church signed up for foster care and adoption." David Platt #Radical

Am I Content With Necessities?

"am I willing to live a life that is content with food and clothing, having the basic necessities of my life provided for? Or do I want more?"

"Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?"

from Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream by David Platt

Poke the Box by Seth Godin

Some of my favorite quotes from Poke the Box by Seth Godin:
"As organizations have begun to coalesce around projects, they’ve made a startling discovery: the starting part is harder than it looks."
"They don’t understand that Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing."
"The greatest challenge any successful organization faces is finding the guts to risk that success in order to accomplish something great. And risking that success ultimately becomes the only way to accomplish something great."
"Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity and transparency and new. These are alien concepts in many places. McDonald’s, Hertz, Dell, and others crank it out. They show up. They lower costs. They use a stopwatch to measure output."

5 Things I?m Surprised I Can?t Find in the Bible

"This exercise, of course, isn’t designed to register complaints with the Bible. It is perfect. The exercise does, however, instruct me. I am far less than perfect. It reminds me to not shout where God has whispered. It reminds me to seek to align my priorities with His. It reminds me that while the Bible is not less than a rule book for the Christian, it is more than that. It is the very food by which we live. When we find ourselves troubled by the Bible, either by what is in there or what isn’t, we get a clue as to where our troubles lie. We learn submission to authority is more important than the form of the authority. We learn that while form matters, worship is a matter of the heart. We learn to allow preaching to correct us, more than we correct preaching. We learn that being a godly spouse is more powerful than picking the perfect spouse. And we learn that we have eternity to learn more about who God is."

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