Today more than a billion people in the world live and die in desperate poverty. They attempt to survive on less than a dollar per day. Close to two billion others live on less than two dollars per day. That’s half the world struggling to find food, water, and shelter with the same amount of money I spend on French fries for lunch. More than twenty-six thousand children today will breathe their last due to starvation or a preventable disease . . . . To put it in perspective, for the church I pastor, if this is my community, then every child eighteen years and younger in our country would be dead within the next two days.
David Platt
Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream, p. 93
