INTRODUCTION
David
Platt’s book, Radical, provides
valuable insight for anyone seeking to live “on mission” for God. Asserting that “we have in many area
unknowingly embraced values and ideas that are common in our culture but
antithetical to the gospel [Jesus] taught,”[1]
the author urges his readers to “return with urgency to a biblical gospel.”[2] The result of this effort is an insightful,
often convicting work that cuts cleanly through the patina of Americanism that
covers so much of American Christianity, and reveals implicit inconsistencies
that challenge the reader to live their lives in radical abandon to the tenets
of the gospel of Christ.
