Something Needs to Change Quotes

“We recently walked through essential traits of a church according to the Bible, and they’re fairly simple and straightforward: •Preach his Word. •Share the gospel. •Pray fervently and frequently. •Worship together. •Give together. •Love one another. •Help one another grow in Christ. •Commit our lives together to making disciples and multiplying churches among the nations, no matter what it costs us.*1”
― David Platt, Something Needs to Change: An Urgent Call to Make Your Life Count

“Repentance leads to a changed way of life. Repentance requires change.”
― David Platt, Something Needs to Change: A Call to Make Your Life Count in a World of Urgent Need

“Here’s why. Because you and I need to remember that our homes and our health and our bank accounts and our vehicles and our jobs and our comforts in this life guarantee us nothing in this world.”
― David Platt, Something Needs to Change: An Urgent Call to Make Your Life Count

“Why are Bible-believing, Bible-preaching churches in America so focused on what is not in the Bible?”
― David Platt, Something Needs to Change: An Urgent Call to Make Your Life Count

“Jesus wept over those in need. He was moved with compassion for the crowds. He lived and loved to bring healing and comfort to the broken. He died for the sins of the world. So why are those of us who carry his Spirit not moved and compelled in the same way? Surely God didn’t design the gospel of Jesus to be confined to our minds and mouths in the church, yet disconnected from our emotions and actions in the world.”
― David Platt, Something Needs to Change: An Urgent Call to Make Your Life Count

“God, I choose to believe your Word. I don’t claim to understand it, but I choose to believe it. I choose to believe that Jesus alone has power over death and authority to bring life. And, O God, I pray if this is true, then more than anything else, the people here need to know about Jesus! You know this! And I am realizing this in a way I never have before. So I am pleading like I never have before! Please show your mercy in these mountains! Please show your mercy now, O God! Before another sky burial! Before more people are born, live, and die with all their hope in burning incense to a statue!”
― David Platt, Something Needs to Change: An Urgent Call to Make Your Life Count

“Today”
― David Platt, Something Needs to Change: An Urgent Call to Make Your Life Count

“Resolved, To think much, on all occasions, of my own dying, and of the common circumstances which attend death.”
― David Platt, Something Needs to Change: An Urgent Call to Make Your Life Count

“I’ve been working to turn those tears into tactics for making God’s grace known among these people.”
― David Platt, Something Needs to Change: An Urgent Call to Make Your Life Count

“I see in Aaron a picture of someone who believes what he just prayed - that we just spoke to the one true God, who has all the power in the universe. Aaron believes this so much that he is at God's disposal to be the means by which his prayers are answered.”
― David Platt, Something Needs to Change: A Call to Make Your Life Count in a World of Urgent Need