{"id":68,"date":"2012-03-10T06:58:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T13:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickduffel.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2012-03-10T06:58:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T13:58:17","slug":"book-review-radical-together-by-david-platt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"BOOK REVIEW: Radical Together by David Platt"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/radical-together-3d.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-69\" title=\"Radical-Together-3D\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/radical-together-3d.jpg?resize=266%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/radical-together-3d.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/radical-together-3d.jpg?resize=267%2C300&amp;ssl=1 267w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/radical-together-3d.jpg?resize=768%2C864&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/radical-together-3d.jpg?resize=910%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 910w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/radical-together-3d.jpg?resize=1200%2C1350&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a>If you want to keep going to church, comfortable remaining unchallenged and concerned primarily with your preferences, don\u2019t read this book.\u00a0 If you want remain ignorant\u2014and blissfully so\u2014about the plight of fellow Christians around world struggling with persecution and poverty, don\u2019t read this book.\u00a0 If you want to keep seeing the Bible as a lifeless, unread book instead of the key ingredient for a transformed and Spirit-led, don\u2019t read this book.\n<p>If you want to feel the gut-wrenching pull of the Spirit to do something different\u2014something, well, radical\u2014then you must read this book.\u00a0 In fact, every American Christian should read this book, along with its companion piece, Radical.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Radical Together has many peers: The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns and Crazy Love by Francis Chan are a couple also-awesome examples.\u00a0 What makes David Platt\u2019s offering a cut above in many ways is the way it focuses on the power of the local church walking in step with Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, directed by the Word of God.\u00a0 His examples from his own church are both powerful and humble.<\/p>\n<p>I think the key idea of the book is our willingness as faith communities and individuals to lay everything down before God and let Him determine what should be done, what should be given up, what should be stopped, and what should be added.\u00a0 Are we willing?\u00a0 I know I am much closer as a result of reading Radical Together.\u00a0 I pray the same for you.<\/p>\n<p>Please Note: This book was gifted by Blogging for Books in exchange for my unbiased review of this work. This has in no way influenced my opinion or review of this work.\u00a0 For more information, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/waterbrookmultnomah.com\/bloggingforbooks\/\">Blogging for Books.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to keep going to church, comfortable remaining unchallenged and concerned primarily with your preferences, don\u2019t read this book.\u00a0 If you want remain ignorant\u2014and blissfully so\u2014about the plight of fellow Christians around world struggling with persecution and poverty, don\u2019t read this book.\u00a0 If you want to keep seeing the Bible as a lifeless,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/?p=68\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BOOK REVIEW: Radical Together by David Platt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,4,12],"tags":[15,32,37,84,113,150,157,165,176],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-for-books","category-books-2","category-reviews","tag-52-books","tag-books","tag-church","tag-god","tag-leaders","tag-reading","tag-reviews-2","tag-scripture","tag-social-justice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EHHr-16","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}