Have you started to look at Jesus differently over the years? Instead of learning about Him from commentaries and anecdotes, have you really gotten to know the Jesus of the Bible? If you have, then you know what Jesus really expects of Christian church ministry leadership. Instead of skirting around the message, or sugar-coating it for the “me-first” culture in which we live, David Platt challenges Christians to take back their faith from the American Dream. In Radical Together, Dr. Platt shares six foundational concepts that will help Christian church ministry leadership make an impact for God’s glory, and he broadens this call to challenge believers everywhere to unite around the vision Jesus shared in the Gospels.
The truths that are shared in this book are particularly convicting for believers who consider themselves obedient, because it reveals how accustomed we are to a society that values material wealth. No stranger to Christian church ministry leadership, David Platt is the pastor of The Church at Brook Hills, a large congregation in Birmingham Alabama. Known as an “exceptional expositor,” the author has traveled the world to help believers see the commands of Christ in a bold and fresh new way; one that can transform a community of faith.
One summary of the book sees David Platt's "Radical" through the lens of Scripture, saying it “reflects a wider move of God through which He is stirring His people to live radically for Him to finish discipling all nations.” (Matt. 24:14 and Matt 28:18-20) For believers who play a role in Christian church ministry leadership, this book can be somewhat haunting, primarily because it reveals the state of their hearts. It lays bare how readily they would abandon Jesus’ words and settle for a less obedient relationship with Him in favor of the world’s acceptance. In other words, Radical Together urges God’s people to live “all out’ for Jesus and how we are all responsible for impacting the world for His glory.
If there is one question that readers come away with after reading this book, it is “What is Jesus worth to me?” As suggested in the publisher’s summary, even the most devoted Christian church ministry leadership can forget how Jesus said his disciples should live; and what that really looks like. Until one is ready to leave behind the security, convenience, money and social status that American’s believe is their God-given right; until believers actually take up their crosses daily, they will continue to miss out on many of the rewards of following Christ.
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