“Ordinary people who are naturally drawn to the comforts of the American dream can be converted to a radical faith in a radical Savior. Why not join us?
If you are serious about taking this journey, though, I believe a couple preconditions exist…first, you need to commit to believe whatever Jesus says…second, you need to commit to obey what you heard. The gospel does not prompt you to mere reflection; the gospel requires a response…
The gospel is the revelation of who God is, who we are, and how we can be reconciled to him. Yet, in the American dream, where self reigns as king (or queen), we have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.
As a result we desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical. And in the process we need to examine whether we have misconstrued a proper response to the gospel and maybe we have missed the primary reward of the Gospel, which is God himself.”
David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream (Colorado Springs: Multnomah) 20-28.