10 Radical Sayings of Jesus

The Challenge

David Platt’s Radical is a shock of a bestseller: a book that challenges people to follow the Jesus of the gospels—the one who called people to leave their homes, abandon their jobs, risk their lives, and even give up their families for him. Platt asks us to examine what happens when we get serious about the gospel and join the radical journey of the disciples of Jesus.

Of course, it all starts with the words of Jesus, so we asked Platt to point us to some of the most radical challenges found in the gospels.

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Gain the World, Forfeit Life

If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what can a man give in return for his life? For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

— Mark 8:34-38

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