“…those who claim to be Christians but refuse to help poverty stricken people are simply not children of God.”David Platt, Counter Culture: A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Poverty, Same-Sex Marriage, Racism, Sex Slavery, Immigration, Abortion, Persecution, Orphans and Pornography. Tyndale House Publishers, 2015, p.29.
“If the love of God is in our hearts, then it is not possible for us to ignore the poor in the world.”David Platt, Counter Culture: A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Poverty, Same-Sex Marriage, Racism, Sex Slavery, Immigration, Abortion, Persecution, Orphans and Pornography. Tyndale House Publishers, 2015, p.27.
“… if we have clean water, sufficient food and clothes, a roof over our heads at night, access to medicine, a mode of transportation … and the ability to read a book, then relative to billions of people in the world, we are incredibly wealthy.”David Platt, Counter Culture: A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Poverty, Same-Sex Marriage, Racism, Sex Slavery, Immigration, Abortion, Persecution, Orphans and Pornography. Tyndale House Publishers, 2015, p.26.
“The gospel of Christ … is a call to countercultural crucifixion – death to self in face of earthly opposition for the sake of eternal reward.”David Platt, Counter Culture: A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Poverty, Same-Sex Marriage, Racism, Sex Slavery, Immigration, Abortion, Persecution, Orphans and Pornography. Tyndale House Publishers, 2015, p.21-22.
“… a full-orbed understanding of the gospel indissolubly brings together both radical care for the poor and radical opposition to abortion, a radical stance against slavery and a radical defence of marriage.”David Platt, Counter Culture: A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Poverty, Same-Sex Marriage, Racism, Sex Slavery, Immigration, Abortion, Persecution, Orphans and Pornography. Tyndale House Publishers, 2015, p.17.
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