{"id":2895,"date":"2013-01-31T16:03:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T23:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/takeandread\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2013-02-01T15:12:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T22:12:11","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-really-follow-jesus-a-video-qa-with-david-platt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/takeandread\/2013\/01\/what-does-it-mean-to-really-follow-jesus-a-video-qa-with-david-platt\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Mean to Really Follow Jesus? A Video Q&A with David Platt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>\u201cI\u2019m convinced that there are scores of people here and around the world who culturally identify themselves as Christians who are biblically not<\/em> followers of Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Platt, pastor and author of the New York Times<\/em> best-selling book Radical: Taking Your Faith Back from the American Dream,\u00a0<\/em>is at it again, delivering another hard message for the Evangelical church in his new book, Follow Me: A Call to Die, A Call to Live<\/em><\/a>. While Radical<\/em> challenged Christians to \u201cdie to self,\u201d\u00a0Follow Me<\/em>\u00a0takes the next step and asks the question: What does it mean to really<\/em> follow Jesus? And the costly answer \u201cto lose your life,\u201d Platt says, is one that many contemporary Christians are completely missing.<\/p>\n

In our video interview below, Platt talks about why this is such a hard message for the church today, and if he thinks his message is getting through. We also talked about his passion for global disciple-making and the future of the Evangelical church.<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t forget to check out the Patheos Book Club on Follow Me<\/em><\/a> to read an excerpt and what our bloggers are saying about Platt\u2019s new book.<\/p>\n