We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.
Interpretation
The quote warns against separating God's grace from His glory, suggesting that both are essential in understanding faith.
David Platt highlights an important issue within church culture: the tendency to focus on God's grace without acknowledging His glory. This disconnection can lead to a skewed understanding of faith, where believers may underestimate the significance of God's magnificence and the reverence due to Him. By embracing both grace and glory, individuals can achieve a more holistic view of their faith and its implications in their lives.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a sermon to encourage a balanced understanding of grace and glory.
So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and more material possessions while ignoring the Bible on caring for the poor? The difference is that one involves a social taboo in the church and the other involves the social norm in the church.
The price is certainly high for people who don’t know Christ and who live in a world where Christians shrink back from self-denying faith and settle into self-indulging faith. While Christians choose to spend their lives fulfilling the American dream instead of giving their lives to proclaiming the kingdom of God, literally billions in need of the Gospel remain in the dark
What if the very reason we have breath is because we have been saved for a global mission? And what if anything less than passionate involvement in global mission is actually selling God short by frustrating the very purpose for which he created us?
A high view of God’s sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically pastors, who believe that God’s sovereign over all things will lead Christians to die for the sake of all peoples.
[...]there is no injustice in God. The injustice lies in Christians who possess the gospel and refuse to give their lives to making it known among those who haven't heard.
God involves us in his missions not because He needs us, but because He loves us. And in His mercy He has invited us to be involved in His sovereign design for the spread of the gospel to the ends of the earth.
Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.
The only freedom is the freedom from the known.
Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.
I find it very difficult to think of mistakes; not that I don't make any but because I was brought up to look only at the good things in life ... As for what lost the most money, probably Virgin Cola. It is still No 1 in Bangladesh though.
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