7 Quotes by David Platt about discipleship
"The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him. Follow Me, pg. 11"
"The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world."
"Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus."
"We've taken the lifeblood out of Christianity and put Kool-Aid in its place so that it tastes better to the crowds, and the consequences are catastrophic. ~Follow Me, pg. 7"
"As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation."
"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."
"The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God."