Today we talk with David Platt, who turns 40 years old in just a couple of weeks and no

one knows how to pack life into a few short years, like David Platt packs ministry into

a few years.

I just went back and looked at the last 12 years of his ministry.

It's remarkable.

In 2006, at the age of 26, he became the lead pastor of the church at Brook Hills, named

the youngest mega church pastor in America at the time.

There he launched Secret Church, which is an intensive Bible study that has become popular

around the globe.

In 2010, he published the New York Times bestseller Radical, taking back your faith from the American

Dream.

He launched the online resource site Radical.net about 10 years ago, and in 2013, he helped

launch the first cross conference, a very strategic missions conference.

In 2014, after some significant experiences on the mission field, and seeing the desperation

of the globally lost, he returned to the states and felt led to leave pastoral ministry

to become the president of the Southern Baptist Conventions International Mission Board.

A massive missionary sending organization, he moved to Virginia, and from what I hear,

he brought significant change, not least of which, was much needed financial reforms.

In February of 2017, he returned to preaching.

This time at McLean Bible Church, a DC area mega church, officially becoming the church's

teaching pastor in September of last year.

Initially, he aimed to do both, to preach and to lead the IMB, but early this year, and

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