What Is Platt's View On Submissiveness?

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about abandoning ourselves.”(7) If one feels called to stay in America and not pursue overseas missions I could see where, after reading this book, they may feel a sense of inadequacy or feel as though they are outside of the will of God, yet Platt never says in order to be obedient you must go overseas and share the Gospel. Some would argue that a sense of guilty or shame after reading this book would be conviction instead of a response to contravening views. In any religious or political analysis there will always be many different outlooks as to what each individual believes. Because Platt’s perspective on submissiveness is so strong its simple to see how some people’s views may differ from his. This viewer thinks one can only view his

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