Quotes From "Follow Me: A Call To Die A Call To Live" By David Platt

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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. David Platt
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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? David Platt
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We email, Facebook, tweet and text with people who are going to spend eternity in either heaven or hell. Our lives are too short to waste on mere temporal conversations when massive eternal realities hang in the balance. Just as you and I have no guarantee that we will live through the day, the people around us are not guaranteed tomorrow either. So let's be intentional about sewing the threads of the gospel into the fabric of our conversations every day, knowing that it will not always be easy, yet believing that eternity will always be worth it. . David Platt
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The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God. David Platt
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Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus. David Platt
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As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation. David Platt
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I could impart excitement, but not urgency. — Francis Chen David Platt
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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. David Platt
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God grows the Church through holiness in Christians. David Platt
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The author describes the adoption process in which he and his wife participated as "a paperwork pregnancy". David Platt