Radical by David Platt

I love the subtitle: "Taking your faith back from the American Dream." This book will definately rock your world and convict you like crazy. It is a book that challenges our american way of thinking about who Jesus was, what he was about and what he did. We as american Christians have made ourselves a very comfortable version of Christianity and Jesus. Here is an exerpt from the book:
"We are giving in to the dangerous temptation to take the Jesus of the Bible and twist him into a version of Jesus
we are more comfortable with. A nice middle-class American Jesus. A Jesus who doesn't mind materialism and
who would never call us to give away everything we have. A Jesus who would not expect us to forsake our closet
relationship so that he receives all our affection. A Jesus who is fine with nominal devotion that does not infringe
on our comforts, because after all, he loves us just the way we are. A Jesus who wants us to be balances, who
wants us to avoid dangerous extremes, and who, for that matter wants us to avoid danger all together. A Jesus
who brings us comfort and prosperity as we live out Christian spin on the American dream. But do you and I
realize what we are doing at this point? We are molding Jesus into our own image. He is beginning to look a lot
like us because, after all, that is whom we are most comfortable with. And the danger now is tha when we gather
in our church buildings to sing and lift up our hands in worship, we may not actually be worshiping the Jesus of the
Bible. Instead we may be worshiping ourselves.

Wow! This hit home for me. How comfortable I have become in the past few years. Wanting simple yet extravagant luxuries that most of the rest of the world would laugh at or be saddened over. As i was reading this book, reality sunk in. God has been working on me in this area and this just hit home! What is it that God is challenging me to do(more to come on this later... i can't wait to tell everyone!)? What attitudes and ideas, do i need to step away from and what ones do i need to cover myself with? I am still trying to wrap my mind around this book, and the calling of God on my life.