David Platt

David Joseph Platt is an American evangelical Baptist pastor.

He was senior pastor at the Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama, from 2006 to 2014.

At the time he was the youngest megachurch pastor in the United States.

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

At age 27, he became the youngest megachurch pastor in the United States.

He is the author of the 2010 New York Times Best Seller Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream.

Platt studied at University of Georgia in journalism and earned a B.A. He also earned a M.Div, Th.M, and PhD from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

He served at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary 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 Hurricane Katrina.

From 2014 to 2017, Platt was president of the International Mission Board.

In 2014, Platt was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board.

The International Mission Board is one of the largest missionary sending organizations in the world.

He became pastor-teacher at McLean Bible Church in 2017.

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.