David Platt Disregarded Elder’s Concerns about Voting Book
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A deleted scene from “The Real David Platt” documentary.
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- As we approach a presidential election, in such a polarized political climate...
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- The Seven Things to Consider Before You Vote book, the elders got a copy of that about a week or two before it went to the publisher, and I started reading it.
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- I thought, boy, this isn't right. Basically, it's okay to vote for liberal progressives who don't have a biblical worldview.
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- And I don't think that that's right. You know, if somebody's talking about, you know, transgender or homosexuality and women's liberation, if that's what they stand for, and you're voting for that individual,
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- David said, you know, kind of in a soft way, it's okay. I came back with notes in the margins on this stuff, and I said,
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- David, did you read my... He goes, yeah. He goes, I did. He said, Craig, thank you very much.
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- Okay. And then the next week, it was published. Tom, definitely, Mark and I, maybe
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- Larry, we said, we don't want this book, you know, promoted from the pulpit.
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- And we don't really want books in the lobby for sale because we just don't think this book is right.
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- The book came out, and there were thousands of copies put in the lobby. And we said,
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- David, we told you not to do that. And we just got the look, you know. I got the bill for it, for the publishing of it, yeah.
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- And so I called Larry up, and I said, Larry, are we supposed to be paying for this? He goes, no, no, no, no, we have an agreement.
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- No, we're not supposed to be. I said, okay. I said, I'm not going to sign this check. I said,