Last semester at the University of Delaware, three of the students in our College Ministry read David Platt’s best-selling book, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream.  Here is a summary of the book from one of them, a graduate student named Ryan Evans.

The book “Radical” by David Platt is a hard-hitting survey of contemporary Christians living in America, and how it differs drastically from the Christianity Jesus had in mind and what the early church looked like.  Indeed, the first chapter begins by describing an underground church in Asia meeting in a tiny room filled to the brim with believers who had traveled a long distance on foot or bicycle to get there, some even risking their lives to do so.  He tells of weeping and prayers for believers who have been taken by the government or local cults.  He contrasts this with the mega-church he became the pastor of in America, in a million-dollar church building with millions of dollars in automobiles in the parking lot.  Here, he touches on the cost of not being totally sold out to Jesus.

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