Radical Together By: David Platt

After reading David Platt's book "Radical", I was super excited to have the opportunity to read "Radical Together" as well.  In Radical, David Platt’s plea for Christians to take back their faith from the American Dream resonated with readers everywhere and quickly became a New York Times bestseller. Now in Radical Together, the author broadens his call, challenging us to unite around a gospel-centered vision.

While the goal of this book is to teach you to how to take what you learned by reading Platt's first book, "Radical" and actually live those principles out in our everyday lives.  I have to admit, a large portion of this book was just more details about what I had read in Radical.  Not that it was a bad thing, it just made for quite a bit of repetitive reading.  It did offer more details and insights in these places but I was not a huge fan of the large amount of repetition found throughout this book. 

The book did have some wonderful key points though despite the repetition and I was again challenged by Platt's writings. I loved his challenge to our churches today to get rid of the "mega-church" mentality and go back to the grass roots foundations of small home church type settings that provide more intimate discipleship settings.  A large portion of the writing in this book is geared toward churches today and I love how Platt points out that one or two believers in a church are not much of a threat to Satan and his schemes but that an entire church of believers that are committed to joining together to take the Word of God and the glory of God to every person on the planet IS a serious threat!  Through Radical Together, Platt is teaching us to be a church of believers that are drawn into a Biblical gospel that is measured more by self-denial than self-fulfillment.  I would still highly encourage anyone to read both Radical and Radical Together as both of these books speak powerful words that will revolutionize and transform your thinking, your view of life and ultimately how you are fulfilling the Great Commission.   

I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review!