If you have a Bible and I hope you do, the beauty of the gospel, the God has saved us.

He freed us from the power and the penalty of sin.

He's put us in Christ who's now our life.

So we've got to get to surrender our lives.

Our lives are yours and we're your servants.

It's not radical version of Christianity.

This is biblical Christianity. This is what it means to be a follower of Christ.

We don't call the shots. He calls the shots.

The Radical Together Podcast. We're teaching from David Platt.

Welcome to this special episode of the Radical Together Podcast.

I'm Jonathan Witt, producer of Radical Together, and if you're new to the podcast,

you can listen to all the previous episodes at radical dot net or

by subscribing on iTunes. Now instead of a regular teaching session in this

episode a few days ago I actually sat down and had a conversation with

David and we talked about this last year in ministry I actually sat down and had a conversation with David.

And we talked about this last year in ministry,

his family, and his new role as president

of the International Mission Board.

David, thanks for taking the time to talk to us today. I know you're a busy guy, you've been traveling around the world for various reasons. I know you just recently got back from a short-term missions trip. Tell us a little bit about that.

Yeah, I just got back from North Africa.

A few months ago, I realized a lot of the travel

I've been doing overseas has been for meetings,

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