Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

by David Platt

commit to believe

commit to obey

One preacher described it as if you and I were standing a short hundred yards away from a dam of water ten thousand miles high and ten thousand miles wide. All of a sudden that dam was breached, and a torrential flood of water came crashing toward us. Right before it reached our feet, the ground in front of us opened up and swallowed it all. At the Cross, Christ drank the full cup of the wrath of God, and when he had downed the last drop, he turned the cup over and cried out, “It is finished.”

It is the way of Christ. Instead of asserting ourselves, we crucify ourselves. Instead of imagining all the things

we

can accomplish, we ask God to do what only he can accomplish. Yes, we work, we p...

create, but we do it all while we fast, while we pray, and while we constantly confess our need for the provision of God. Instead of dependence on ourselves, we express radical desperation for the power of his Spirit, and we trust that Jesus stands ready to give us ever...