Something Needs to Change

     Powerful, thought-provoking, dynamic, empowering...these words describe the newest book by David Platt.  Platt's story titled: Something Needs to Change: A Call to Make your Life Count in a World of Urgent Need, details his journey through the Himilaya mountains as he meets the people in the villages who survive there.  I received an advanced reader's copy of  Something Needs to Change: A Call to Make your Life Count in a World of Urgent Need from Waterbrook & Multnomah as a member of the Launch Team for an honest review.
     Platt shares his thoughts and emotions about all that he discovers as he experiences the physical and spiritual needs of the high mountain culture.  While learning about the people and their spiritual beliefs, he delves into his own, questioning his core understanding of the gospel and God's will for the world.
     In the first chapter of the book, Platt explains his approach to writing this book. "I'm most naturally a preacher who makes use of exposition and explanation to communicate his points.  But as I've mentioned, I don't think we need more exposition and explanation.  I think we need an experience...an encounter that takes exposed and explained the truth to a deeper level in our hearts than it would ever go otherwise."  He then throughout the compelling expedition takes the reader boldly through the trials and shocking conditions of the mountain people and those Christians who choose to live and work among them to care for their physical bodies as well as share the gospel of Jesus in the hope to save their spiritual future also.  When asking their guide, Aaron, what he saw on his first trek through the mountains that made him want to continue to live among the people and help them? He replied, "The region we are in right now includes about nine million people. Out of that nine million, there are probably less than one hundred followers of Jesus.  The reality is, most people here have never even heard of Jesus...That's the spiritual condition. The people are also severely impoverished and disadvantaged. When I first came to these villages, I found that half the children were dying before their eighth birthday.  Many weren't making it to their first." It was then that the guide knew he had to devote his life to the needs of these people.
     Platt's storytelling ability allows the reader to feel they are part of the adventure, to find joy in sharing the message of Christ and anguish learning about the persecution of those who follow Him.
I can not possibly praise Platt's book enough.  He is right that - Something Needs to Change.


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