Week 3: Chapter 2 — Too Hungry for Words

1.Platt opens this chapter with a description of the "lostness" of the world — enormous populations living and dying without any access to the gospel. Before reading this chapter, how often did you think about the roughly two billion people who are considered "unreached"? What, if anything, kept that reality at a distance for you?

2.He describes visiting communities of extreme physical poverty and argues that their spiritual poverty — having no knowledge of Christ — is the greater crisis. Do you find that argument compelling or does it feel like it diminishes physical suffering? How do you hold physical and spiritual need together?

3.Platt challenges the idea that people who have never heard the gospel can somehow be saved apart from explicit faith in Christ. He holds firmly to the exclusivity of the gospel (Romans 10:14–15). How does that conviction — that hearing the gospel is a matter of eternal life or death — change the moral weight of the Great Commission for the average believer?