Our culture constantly tells us to look to our own abilities to find strength and success.

Tragically, many churches in our day have taken that same advice. Welcome to the Radical with David Platt podcast, the latest sermons from teacher, author, and

pastor David Platt delivered weekly.

As always you can find thousands of more free resources over at our brand new website

radical.net. In today's sermon David Platt shows us why the self-reliant attitude is contrary to what we see throughout the book of

acts as the gospel spreads across geographic and cultural borders.

Well if the church is to carry out God's mission, then it must rely on God's power.

Making disciples of all nations requires desperate prayer.

Here's David Platt, continuing the series 12 traits of a biblical church with the fourth

trait prayer from the book of Acts.

If you have a Bible and I hope you or somebody around you does that you can look on with

Let me invite you to open with me to axe chapter one from the new testament

acts chapter one and from the New Testament, Acts Chapter 1.

And while you're turning there, I want to welcome those of you

who are joining us in Montgomery County and Loud and Prince William

and the Wharf and different micro sites.

It's good to be back together across Washington

around God's word.

Years ago, I wrote a book about taking back your faith from the American dream.

And ever since that time I've had people ask, like, what's so wrong with the American dream?

Don't you like freedom and the opportunities it affords?

The opportunities it's afforded you like to write a book and without question I am thankful for freedom and

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