With all the differences within the body of Christ, politics, ethnicity, economics, opinions,

what is it that unites us?

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

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In this message from Pastor David Platt,

we'll see that the Cross of Christ should unite God's people.

And furthermore, as the Apostle Paul makes clear, it's the cross that humbles us,

transforms us, and undergirds who we are and what we do.

And though it may seem foolish to the world, the cross is where God's wisdom and power are put on display.

Here's David with a sermon titled The Cross and Christian community from 1st Corinthians

Chapter 1.

And if you have the word, and I hope you do, let me invite you to open with me to First

Corinthians, Chapter 1, as you've already heard mentioned a couple of times.

I was preaching at a missions conference in Orlando last week and missed being here. I'm glad to be back and really can't express in

words how much I am looking forward to the coming months in our faith family and here's why I share with

you a couple months ago about how last August our pastors our elders went away on a retreat and at that retreat we split up individually

just scattered in that setting where we were and we spend time in prayer alone with Bible and hand, asking God to show us where he was leading us,

how he was leading us as a faith family.

Specifically, the next week we were about to study revelation chapter two and three Jesus

letters to the seven churches in revelation and so we were asking the question

what is Jesus what is the Lord saying to the church at Brakeills. So almost as if the Lord was going to write a letter to the

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