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

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

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

So we've gathered together to surrender our lives.

Our lives are yours and we're your servants.

It's not radical version of Christianity.

This is biblical Christian. 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 back to another episode of the Radical Together Podcast.

If you're new to the podcast, you can listen to all the previous episodes at radical.net,

or by subscribing on iTunes. Now over the next two

episodes David's message is from John Chapter 3 and it's entitled Love that

captivates. Well if you you have a Bible, and I hope you do, if you don't have one, let me encourage you to find

somebody around you who does, so you can look on with them.

But I want to invite you to open with me to John 3.

Over in the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,

we're going to look at chapter 3 specifically, verse 16, when I was thinking and praying through

what we might study in this Christmas season

in the word, my mind, my thoughts immediately went to a table full of Muslim faces in the

Middle East a couple of months ago that I shared with you about soon after I got back.

Sitting around with those Muslim men in the middle of Ramadan and them asking me what I believe about God and beginning to share with them about who

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