David Joseph Platt is an American

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pastor. He was senior pastor at the Church at Brook Hills in

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, from 2006 to 2014. At the time he was the youngest

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pastor in the United States. From 2014 to 2017, Platt was president of the International Mission Board. He became pastor-teacher at McLean Bible Church in 2017. He is the author of the 2010 New York Times Best Seller '' Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream''.

Education

Platt studied at

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in journalism and earned a

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He also earned a M.Div, Th.M, and

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from

New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS) is a Baptist theological institute in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Missions and evangelism are core focuses of the seminary. NOBTS offers doctora ...

Career

He served at

as Dean of Chapel and Assistant Professor of Expository Preaching and Apologetics. He was serving at Edgewater Baptist Church in New Orleans when the parsonage where he lived flooded during

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. In 2006, Platt was introduced as the new senior pastor of The Church at Brook Hills in

. At age 27, he became the youngest megachurch pastor in the United States. In 2014, Platt was elected president of the

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's International Mission Board. The International Mission Board is one of the largest missionary sending organizations in the world. In February 2017, Platt began serving as interim teaching pastor at McLean Bible Church in Vienna, Virginia. During this time he continued in his primary role as president of the International Mission Board. In September of that year, Platt was introduced as pastor-teacher of McLean Bible Church. In February 2018, he announced his resignation from the IMB on the hiring of his successor. Also during Platt's tenure at McLean, in certain lawsuits, the church has been accused of not being transparent in specific areas, including its tithes and donations to the Southern Baptist Convention. https://churchleaders.com/news/440900-david-platt-mclean-bible-church-sued-again.html

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Platt, David Baptist ministers from the United States Living people New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary alumni Southern Baptist ministers University of Georgia alumni Clergy from Atlanta 1978 births