Something Needs to Change
by David Platt | Book Summary
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Author: David Platt
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This behind-the-scenes story involved a trip through the Himalayan Mountains, which involved encounters with people who are spiritually lost and physically suffering. Entering into the lives of these lost, suffering people can be a dramatic, shocking thing for Americans who live relatively stable, comfortable lives. Our life experience as Americans often numbs us to the lostness and suffering that exist in the world. Since everyone can't pack up and trek through the Himalayas, this book offers a behind-the-scenes look at such a journey. The aim is simple: through exposition and experience, we must come to realize that "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. Surely something needs to change" (p. 3, emphasis in original). |
David Platt is a graduate of the University of Georgia, with a BA in Journalism, and an MDiv, ThM, and a PhD from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. While still in his 20s, he became the senior pastor of a megachurch in Birmingham, Alabama. After leaving Brook Hills, he served as president of the International Mission Board for the Southern Baptist Convention. From that position, he sought to bring about missional and financial changes.
Platt served as IMB president for four years until he began pastoring his current church, McLean Bible Church in the Washington, D.C. area. At McLean, Platt has continued to give himself to the goal of global missions as a local church pastor. Platt is the author of Radical, Counter Culture, Follow Me, and Before You Vote.
Something Needs to Change
by David Platt
[ Book Summary ]
| Author | David Platt |
| Publisher | Multnomah |
| Date | 2019 |
| Pages | 208 |
Overview:
"I want to take a risk in sharing a more behind-the-scenes look into what happens when a preacher and author with three seminary degrees has his deepest convictions rocked by darkness in the world around him and finds himself asking honestly, Is Jesus really the hope of the world after all?" (p. 6, emphasis in original)
This behind-the-scenes story involved a trip through the Himalayan Mountains, which involved encounters with people who are spiritually lost and physically suffering. Entering into the lives of these lost, suffering people can be a dramatic, shocking thing for Americans who live relatively stable, comfortable lives. Our life experience as Americans often numbs us to the lostness and suffering that exist in the world.
Since everyone can't pack up and trek through the Himalayas, this book offers a behind-the-scenes look at such a journey. The aim is simple: through exposition and experience, we must come to realize that "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. Surely something needs to change" (p. 3, emphasis in original).
David Platt is a graduate of the University of Georgia, with a BA in Journalism, and an MDiv, ThM, and a PhD from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. While still in his 20s, he became the senior pastor of a megachurch in Birmingham, Alabama. After leaving Brook Hills, he served as president of the International Mission Board for the Southern Baptist Convention. From that position, he sought to bring about missional and financial changes.
Platt served as IMB president for four years until he began pastoring his current church, McLean Bible Church in the Washington, D.C. area. At McLean, Platt has continued to give himself to the goal of global missions as a local church pastor. Platt is the author of Radical, Counter Culture, Follow Me, and Before You Vote.