Abandon The American Dream!

David Platt preached last Sunday stating:

Over 4.5 billion who are without Christ are right now heading to an eternity in hell. That is a vast spiritual need. Add to that a vast physical need. 26,000 children will die today because of preventable disease. God has chosen to determine the measure and integrity of faith by our response to the poor. If this book is true, then we do not have time to play games with our lives. We do not have time to play games in the church. I want to call us this morning to forsake hopes, plans, dreams, possessions, and ideas of a nice, comfortable, safe middle-class American life. I want to call you to forsake it all in radical abandonment for Jesus Christ.

What does it look like when the church is a radical, gospel-centered community that is spending herself for the spread of the gospel in the world?

Those most effective in reaching the many are those most passionate about reaching the one. You want to see if Christ is true? Look at the people who follow him, how they love one another, how they serve the needy! This is the mark of the early church.

Do we realize who has saved us? Christ has authority over all things! And we as the church are the fullness of Christ, which means the authority of Christ has been entrusted to the church. We can have great confidence and can rest in the authority of Christ, having been united with Him who has freely given us all things. I encourage you to have confidence in the living and sufficient Word of God.

Faith by itself not accompanied by action is dead. If we are turning a deaf ear to the radical needs around us, we are not the people of God. But it is far easier to feed the poor than to share the gospel. The gospel brings these things in that Christ who was rich became poor so that we who are poor might become rich. Christ alone can produce both of these things.

Gospel-centered community creates a passion to meet the needs of the people around us and a passion to proclaim the gospel which alone can save.

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