{"id":358,"date":"2014-08-27T12:58:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T18:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riversidebaptistabq.org\/?p=358"},"modified":"2014-08-27T13:16:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T19:16:13","slug":"recent-reads-recent-news-radical-by-david-platt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riversidebaptistabq.org\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Recent Reads &#038; Recent News &#8211; Radical, by David Platt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Radical-Taking-Faith-American-Dream\/dp\/1601422210\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-357\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/riversidebaptistabq.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/radical.jpg?resize=195%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"radical\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/riversidebaptistabq.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/radical.jpg?resize=195%2C300&amp;ssl=1 195w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/riversidebaptistabq.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/radical.jpg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Radical-Taking-Faith-American-Dream\/dp\/1601422210\" target=\"_blank\">Radical<\/a> by David Platt soon after it was published in 2010. It is definitely a radical book calling all believers to exercise a radical commitment to Christ and His kingdom. It is a wake-up call to us all, calling us out of the apathy of the ordinary and into the excitement of radical discipleship.<\/p>\n<p>Just today I learned that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/43237\/platt-succeeds-elliff-as-imb-president\" target=\"_blank\"> David Platt has been elected<\/a> to the position of President of the SBC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Mission Board<\/a>. This is exciting news and portends great things for the future of the IMB.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read Radical by David Platt soon after it was published in 2010. It is definitely a radical book calling all believers to exercise a radical commitment to Christ and His kingdom. It is a wake-up call to us all, calling us out of the apathy of the ordinary and into the excitement of radical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-recent-reads","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4TaQx-5M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riversidebaptistabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riversidebaptistabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riversidebaptistabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riversidebaptistabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riversidebaptistabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/riversidebaptistabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/riversidebaptistabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riversidebaptistabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riversidebaptistabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riversidebaptistabq.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}