Guide to Unprecedented Social Change

David Platt still wants to wake you up from the American dream. Back in 2010, his bestselling book Radical chastised the church for growing fat and complacent with consumer comforts while unbelievers worldwide die and enter hell without ever hearing the good news of Jesus Christ. Indeed, hundreds of thousands of Christians around the world heard this call to radical faith.

Platt’s 2015 book Counter Culture [review], now updated and re-released for 2017, takes aim at just about every issue that divides America today: abortion, homosexuality, religious freedom, refugees, immigration and much more. As with his previous work, Platt seeks to show that awakening from our moral and ethical slumber will be costly, but ultimately rewarding as we risk big things for a big Savior. Perhaps the Spirit will again work where worldly means of motivation have failed.

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With the re-release of Counter Culture, and in our context of tremendous racial and political turmoil, Platt joins me on The Gospel Coalition Podcast to discuss our era’s rapid pace of social change, churches that care as much about slavery as marriage, and the implications of our behavior for international missions. Platt is president of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and a Council member with The Gospel Coalition.

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Collin Hansen serves as vice president for content and editor in chief of The Gospel Coalition, as well as executive director of The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. He hosts the Gospelbound podcast and has written and contributed to many books, most recently Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation and Rediscover Church: Why the Body of Christ Is Essential. He has published with the New York Times and the Washington Post and offered commentary for CNN, Fox News, NPR, BBC, ABC News, and PBS NewsHour. He edited Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor and The New City Catechism Devotional, among other books. He is an adjunct professor at Beeson Divinity School, where he also co-chairs the advisory board.

David Platt (PhD, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary) serves as a pastor in metro Washington, DC. He is the founder of Radical, a ministry that exists to equip Christians to be on mission. He’s a Council member of The Gospel Coalition. David is the author of many books, including Radical, Counter Culture, Don’t Hold Back, and several volumes in the Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary series. Along with his wife and children, he lives in metro DC.