“Little of what we have would be considered necessities, and as long as we are living in our culture, we will be surrounded by luxuries. So why not simply begin a process of limiting and eliminating some of them? Why not begin selling and giving away luxuries for the sake of the poor outside our gates? Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more? Now we’re getting radical.” –David Platt, Radical, p. 127.
During the sweltering month of August, megachurch pastor and author David Platt headed to see firsthand the crisis at the border.