110+ David Platt Quotes On Missions, Missional And Discipleship

David Platt is an American pastor and author. He is the lead pastor of McLean Bible Church in Virginia and the president of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is the author of several books, including Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream and Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live. Following is our collection on famous quotes by David Platt on missions, missional, discipleship.

Top 10 David Platt Quotes

1. This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness
2. When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus
3. Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.
4. Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell.
5. This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.
6. People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians
7. The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.
8. 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.
9. Nothing is impossible for the people of God who trust in the power of God to accomplish the will of God.
10. If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.

David Platt Short Quotes

• I want to be apart of something that can only be explained by the hand of God!
• To be a Christian is to be loved by God, pursued by God, and found by God.
• Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.
• A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.
• May even the concept of unreached peoples be totally intolerable to us.
• As Christ begins to live in us, everything begins to change about us.
• My life is a blank check before God... No strings attached.
• Why make disciples? Because heaven and hell exist, and the end of the world is coming.
• The very first word out of Jesus; mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent.
• What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?

David Platt Quotes About Missions

God involves us in his missions not because He needs us, but because He loves us. And in His mercy He has invited us to be involved in His sovereign design for the spread of the gospel to the ends of the earth. — David Platt

God involves us in his mission not because he needs us but because he loves us. — David Platt

A high view of God’s sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically pastors, who believe that God’s sovereign over all things will lead Christians to die for the sake of all peoples. — David Platt

What if the very reason we have breath is because we have been saved for a global mission? And what if anything less than passionate involvement in global mission is actually selling God short by frustrating the very purpose for which he created us? — David Platt

David Platt Famous Quotes And Sayings

Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us. — David Platt

In a world where everything revolves around yourself-protec t yourself, promote yourself, comfort yourself, and take care of yourself-Jesus says, 'Crucify yourself. Put aside all self-preservati on in order to live for God's glorification, no matter what that means for you in the culture around you.' — David Platt

Passionate worship always leads to personal witness. Always. And what that means is . . . if we’re not witnessing, there’s a problem with our worship. We’re not seeing God for who He is! We’re not realizing what He’s done! We’re not realizing the magnitude of what He’s done for our souls! — David Platt

To everyone wanting a safe, untroubled, comfortable life free from danger, stay away from Jesus. The danger in our lives will always increase in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ. — David Platt

The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to free our lives from worldly desires, worldly thinking, worldly pleasures, worldly dreams, worldly ideals, worldly values, worldly ambitions, and worldly acclaim, then we must focus our lives on another world. — David Platt

This is the gospel. The just and loving Creator of the universe has looked upon hopelessly sinful people and sent His Son, God in the flesh, to bear His wrath against sin on the cross and to show His power over sin in the resurrection so that all who trust in Him will be reconciled to God forever. — David Platt

The call of Christ is to deny ourselves and to let go of our lives. To relinquish control of our lives, to surrender everything we are, everything that we do, our direction our safety our security is no longer found in the things of this world. It is found in Christ. And that is great risk when it comes to the things of this world. — David Platt

The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life. — David Platt

But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me. — David Platt

As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience. — David Platt

My prayer is that people will see that following Jesus costs you everything you are and everything you have. And my prayer is that people will see that Jesus is worth it. — David Platt

No sound system. No band. No guitar. No entertainment. No cushioned chairs. No heating or air-con. Nothing but the people of God and the word of God. And strangely, that's enough. God's Word is enough for millions of believers who gather in house churches... Jungles... Rainforests, and middle-eastern cities. But is his Word enough for us? — David Platt

We don’t go to Scripture for permission to do what we think is best, but for direction to do what He says is best. — David Platt

We learned that orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names. They are easier to ignore before you see their faces. It is easier to pretend they’re not real before you hold them in your arms. But once you do, everything changes. — David Platt

Our great need is to fall before an almighty Father day and night and to plead for him to show his radical power in and through us, enabling us to accomplish for his glory what we could never imagine in our own strength. — David Platt

There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ. — David Platt

The more Christ fulfills the cravings of our souls, the more he changes our taste capacities from the inside out. The more we walk with him, the more we want him. The more we taste of him, the more we enjoy him. And this transforms how we live and what we live for. — David Platt

We owe Christ to the world--to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations. — David Platt

I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable. — David Platt

On popular issues like poverty and slavery, where Christians are likely to be applauded for our social action, we are quick to stand up and speak out. Yet on controversial issues like homosexuality and abortion, where Christians are likely to be criticized for our involvement, we are content to sit down and stay quiet. — David Platt

We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing. — David Platt

We can accomplish more in one month of dependence on the Spirit than we can in 100 years of dependence on ourselves. — David Platt

We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him. — David Platt

Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator... until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, "No." — David Platt

The message of biblical Christianity is 'God loves me so that I might make him- his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness- known among all nations.' Now God is the object of our faith, and Christianity centers around him. We are not the end of the gospel; God is' — David Platt

God delights in revealing Himself to you when you are bold enough to bother Him. In fact, I think He would say that the only thing that bothers Him is when you don’t come to Him. — David Platt

While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God. — David Platt

Somewhere along the way we have subtly and tragically taken the costly command of Christ to go, baptize, and teach all nations and mutated it into a comfortable call for Christians to come, be baptized, and listen in one location. — David Platt

In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples. — David Platt

The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability. — David Platt

To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath. — David Platt

I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan. — David Platt

Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace. — David Platt

Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections. — David Platt

So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide. — David Platt

Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone. — David Platt

I want to move from what we let go of to whom we hold on to. I want to explore not just the gravity of what we forsake in this world, but also the greatness of the one we follow in this world. — David Platt

Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore. — David Platt

It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued. — David Platt

The Word of God and the Spirit of God are enough for the people of God to enjoy and spread the worship of God. — David Platt

The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom. — David Platt

He (Jesus) came so that we might receive new life through supernatural regeneration. — David Platt

Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation. — David Platt

Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is. — David Platt

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift because it meets our greatest need. — David Platt

God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth — David Platt

What if all it took to bring us to our knees and to ignite our affections was the Word opened and the presence of God? What if that was enough for us? What if it didn't take a great band to evoke that kind of response from us in worship? What if His presence - His Word opened - what if it was enough? — David Platt

The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy. — David Platt

Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life. — David Platt

That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself. — David Platt

We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires. — David Platt

Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ. — David Platt

Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy. — David Platt

Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another. — David Platt

As I looked at material and spiritual poverty in the world around me, including approximately 2 billion people who haven't even heard the gospel, I knew that I needed to make some major changes in my life. — David Platt

Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die. — David Platt

Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken — David Platt

And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us. — David Platt

The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever. — David Platt

We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God. Our hearts resonate with the idea of enjoying God's grace. We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us. And while the wonder of grace is worthy of our attention, if that grace is disconnected from its purpose, the sad result is a self-centered Christianity that bypasses the heart of God. — David Platt

The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers — David Platt

We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community. — David Platt

If we are going to accomplish the global purpose of God, it will not be primarily through giving our money, as important as that is. It will happen primarily through giving ourselvs. This is what the gospel represents and this is what the gospel requires. — David Platt

The church I lead could have the least gifted people, the least talented people, the fewest leaders, and the least money, and this church under the power of the Holy Spirit could still shake the nations for his glory. — David Platt

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats. — David Platt

Being a member of a church means realizing that we are responsible for helping the brothers and sisters around us to grow as disciples of Jesus. In the same way, they are responsible for helping us. We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin. — David Platt

Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things....such superficial religion is rampant in the world today. — David Platt

When we realize we have the responsibility to teach the word, it changes everything about how we hear the Word. — David Platt

Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven. — David Platt

Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more? — David Platt

The price is certainly high for people who don’t know Christ and who live in a world where Christians shrink back from self-denying faith and settle into self-indulging faith. While Christians choose to spend their lives fulfilling the American dream instead of giving their lives to proclaiming the kingdom of God, literally billions in need of the Gospel remain in the dark — David Platt

Whereas disinfecting Christians involves isolating them and teaching them to be good, discipling Christians involves propelling Christians into the world to risk their lives for the sake of others. Now the world is our focus, and we gauge success in the church not on the hundreds or thousands whom we can get into our buildings but on the hundreds or thousands who are leaving our buildings to take on the world with the disciples they are making — David Platt

God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations. — David Platt

Jesus has not given us options to consider. He has given us commands to obey. — David Platt

And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment. — David Platt

God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him. — David Platt

I was immersed in comfortable Christianity. Years ago, I found myself living what seemed like the American church dream - pastoring a large church, living in a large house, and surrounded by all the comforts this world has to offer. But inside I had a sinking feeling that I was missing the point. — David Platt

Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; 'Light momentary affliction.' — David Platt

Clearly our greatest need is not more regulations in order to merit salvation. — David Platt

We have nothing to fear, because God is sovereign. — David Platt

This extremely shocking and utterly revolutionary call is the essence of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus: we are not called to simply believe certain points or observe certain practices, but ultimately to cling to the person of Christ as life itself. — David Platt

I can almost picture the disciples faces. "No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you! — David Platt

This is the reality about humanity. We are each born with an evil, God-hating heart. Genesis 8: 21 says that every inclination of man's heart is evil from childhood, and Jesus' words in Luke 11: 13 assume that we know we are evil. — David Platt

Caring for the poor is one natural overflow and a necessary evidence of the presence of Christ in our hearts. If there is no sign of caring for the poor in our lives, then there is reason to at least question whether Christ is in our hearts. — David Platt

I believe that the gospel and the American Dream have fundamentally different starting points. The American Dream begins with self, exalts self, says you are inherently good and you have in you what it takes to be successful so do all you can, work with everything you have to make much of yourself. The gospel begins with God, the reality that we were created to exalt his name to the ends of the earth. — David Platt

BECAUSE SELF IS NO LONGER OUR GOD, SAFETY IS NO LONGER OUR CONCERN. — David Platt

We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God. — David Platt

Are We Going to die in our religion or are we going to die in our devotion? — David Platt

Life Lessons by David Platt

1. David Platt emphasizes the importance of living a life of faith and obedience to God's Word. He encourages Christians to be willing to take risks for the sake of the gospel and to be willing to go to any lengths to spread the message of Jesus.
2. He also emphasizes the importance of living a life of sacrificial love and service to others, and of giving generously to support the work of God's kingdom.
3. Finally, Platt emphasizes the importance of discipleship, teaching, and mentoring others in the faith so that they can grow in their own relationship with God.