David Platt Quotes About American Dream
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While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.
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In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.
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The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.
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The price is certainly high for people who don’t know Christ and who live in a world where Christians shrink back from self-denying faith and settle into self-indulging faith. While Christians choose to spend their lives fulfilling the American dream instead of giving their lives to proclaiming the kingdom of God, literally billions in need of the Gospel remain in the dark
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I believe that the gospel and the American Dream have fundamentally different starting points. The American Dream begins with self, exalts self, says you are inherently good and you have in you what it takes to be successful so do all you can, work with everything you have to make much of yourself. The gospel begins with God, the reality that we were created to exalt his name to the ends of the earth.
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