{"author":"David Platt","author_id":"David+Platt","total_quotes":25,"quotes":[{"text":"God's glory is most majestically displayed not through you were through me, but through US. God raises up the Church, and says to all Creation in the heavens, on the Earth, and under the Earth, this is the bride and body of My Son, bought and purchased by His blood to be My people and receive My power, and enjoy My presence, and declare My praise forever and ever.","author":"David Platt","tags":["community","spiritual-gifts","testimony"],"id":14189,"author_id":"David+Platt"},{"text":"God's revelation in the Gospel not only reveals Who He is, but it also reveals who we are.","author":"David Platt","tags":["bible","depravity","theology","word-of-god"],"id":15680,"author_id":"David+Platt"},{"text":"As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.","author":"David Platt","tags":["discipleship","regeneration","renewal","sanctification","sovereignty-of-god"],"id":38740,"author_id":"David+Platt"},{"text":"I can almost picture the disciples faces. 'No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you!","author":"David Platt","tags":["spirituality"],"id":43755,"author_id":"David+Platt"},{"text":"Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.","author":"David Platt","tags":["christian-living","christianity","evangelism","faith","jesus-christ"],"id":62696,"author_id":"David+Platt"},{"text":"The author holds up for inspection the fallacy of The Closed-Door Method wherein Christ's followers assume that if a decision is difficult to make it is not His will for us to make it because He would obviously not want us to do anything difficult.","author":"David Platt","tags":["discernment","discipleship","prayer"],"id":63305,"author_id":"David+Platt"},{"text":"What if followers of Christ stopped looking for work in places where the MOST number of Christians Christians lived and started looking for work places where the LEAST Christians lived?","author":"David Platt","tags":["calling","evangelism","vocation"],"id":88582,"author_id":"David+Platt"},{"text":"God grows the Church through holiness in Christians.","author":"David Platt","tags":["community","repentance","testimony"],"id":96465,"author_id":"David+Platt"},{"text":"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.","author":"David Platt","tags":["religion","spirituality"],"id":98225,"author_id":"David+Platt"},{"text":"The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God.","author":"David Platt","tags":["discipleship"],"id":124874,"author_id":"David+Platt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}