Reading God's Word, the Bible, may not seem like a very radical thing to do, but it is the key to personally knowing and living a radical life for a radical God.
Part two of a five part series based on the book Radical by David Platt.
THE RADICAL EXPERIMENT
A one year challenge to radical obedience
The five components
1. pray for the entire world
2. read through the entire Word
3. sacrifice your money for a specific purpose
4. spend your time in another context
5. commit your life to a multiplying community
Read through the entire Word
“Our brothers and sisters around the world often gather at the risks of their lives to hear and know God’s Word. If you and I are going to join them in radical obedience to Christ, we need to start with our Bibles open and our minds engaged…
“Do we realize the battle that is waging around us? There is a true God over this world who wants all people to bow at the feet of a loving Savior, and there is a false god in this world who wants all people to burn in hell. The battle is intense, and it can’t be fought with little thoughts in a daily devotional or petty ideas from a
preacher on Sunday. It certainly can’t be fought with minds numbed by the constant drivel of entertainment on television, DVD’s, video games, and the Internet. If you and I are going to penetrate our culture and the cultures of the world with the gospel, we desperately need minds saturated with God’s Word.”
“God has chosen by his matchless grace to give us revelation of himself in his Word. It is the only Book that he has promised to bless by his Spirit to transform you and me into the image of Jesus Christ. It is the only Book that he has promised to use to bring our hearts, our minds, and our lives in alignment with him… When you or I open the Bible, we are beholding the very words of God- words that have supernatural power to redeem, renew, refresh, and restore our lives to what he created them to be.
“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.
“How will it transform your life, radicalize you, to let your mind and spirit be saturated by the Word of God day after day?”
~David Platt in Radical
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