Follow Me by David Platt
Week 4: Chapter 3 — Turning the World Upside Down
Read Chapter 3 of Follow Me by David Platt. Key passages: Luke 9:23–25; Matthew 10:37–39; Philippians 3:7–11.
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The terms of discipleship Jesus announces in the Gospels sound extreme to modern ears — deny yourself, take up your cross, lose your life. This week, Platt asks us to take those words at face value.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Platt unpacks Luke 9:23, where Jesus says disciples must deny themselves, take up their cross *daily*, and follow him. What does it mean to deny *yourself* — not just deny yourself things, but deny the self itself as the center of your life?
2.He points out that "taking up your cross" in the first century had one unambiguous meaning — walking toward death. How should that original, visceral meaning reshape what we expect the Christian life to feel like?
3.Platt describes how Jesus turns the world's value system upside down: losing your life is how you save it; the last shall be first; the greatest is the servant of all. Where in your daily life do you feel the pull of the world's value system competing with Jesus' upside-down kingdom?