Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream Paperback – 4 May 2010

Do not read this book unless you are prepared to be challenged! It is amazing and has really made me think of different approaches to my Christian life. I had been praying and thinking for a long time and had already made changes to my life and this book just confirms this is the way God is leading me. I got this on my kindle and ordered the paperback for my daughter. I am going to read it again just to make sure I didn't miss anything. It will be a great guidance and go to after my most important book, you know what I'm saying!!

My youth pastor, who I work with, started to quote a lot from this book. So I bought it, wanting to see what all the fuss was about.I am so glad that I did. This is an inspiring, incredible book. I recommend it to all who are wanting to see the works of a Marvellous and Wonderful God, who does still walk and move with His people!

This is a book that every Christian needs to read, David Platt looks at the church in America, although that could easily be translated to anywhere in the developed world, then he compares it with what he reads in the gospels, his conclusions are mind blowing and life changing. Don't miss it, this could change the world.

This book has definitely contributed in 2017 being a radical year in my experience and walk with the Lord. It motivated me to re-read the whole bible again in one year, to increase the amount of time I spend in prayer, to sacrificial giving, reading Operation World and working in another country for the Kingdom.

Christianity remains a very interesting faith. It's an interesting faith because despite having one main character described in one main collection of works it still manages to arouse a multitude of reactions from those claiming to follow the main character. The one collection of volumes can be read and interpreted in such a variety of ways it is no surprise that people have used vitriolic words to disabuse anyone of the idea of disagreeing with their view on this tome.Platt's book comes in at a good time for a significant element of mainstream Christianity and although the primary audience is American (after all it is about the American dream) those who choose to follow Jesus from any culture, especially those considered as Western capitalist countries will find similarities in the concerns Platt raises here.A refreshing quality of the books is that Platt is not stating something as though it is fresh revelation. I'd like to think for quite a number of people who choose to read it the content will act as a wake-up call to the implications of following Christ. Even for those, however, who are familiar with the issues outlined, it should refresh and reinvigorate the need to live out those radical implications of faith.The challenges Platt sets out in his book bear some consideration - they are practical and have the seeds to be life changing to those who embrace the spirit in which they are offered. At the same time it is not a dictate - it is not an ultimatum as though this is the only way to really understand and follow Christ in this day and age. It is a stimulating challenge to do something beyond the comfortable norm in pursuing Jesus.The work is by no means perfect and there are just as many questions to consider in terms of if Platt has gone far enough in considering the implications of being Christ-centred especially in the context of him leading a megachurch with mega-million dollars worth of facilities, etc. etc. There is also the question on the enabling, edifying and equipping environment in which these radical implications can be lived out - does it really work under a clergy-laity split maintained under the pastor-as-chief-executive model.The fact that the book is incomplete is one of the endearing aspects of it - it is something that leads any reader back to the original and contentious individual source of this whole work. This is why I'd have no problems recommending this book for anyone interested in engaging with Jesus in these interesting times especially in countering the cultural claims that can subtly be assumed to be Christian.

The best part is that it's really radical in terms of biblical standards, it's just highlighting the biblical standards! And that's completely radical compared to our way of life nowadays!Thank you for writing such an incredible book and I pray that God will continue to work through you in your life.

For many of us life 'slips by' in inconsequential years, our impact on the world being measured not by what we have done -but by resources consumed. This book un picks the 'American dream' (for which you can substitute the 'Western' dream) and opens eyes and provides a challenge of an alternate view, a better way to true contentment.

It really challanges you to evaluate your theology, and the genuinity of your faith. It challanges you to reach out the 4 walls of church and understand that you're a part of a bigger picture. I will forever cherish this book, no other has stretched me like this before, would recommend to every christian as a must have book.