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CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.

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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
Clergyman
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
John Stephen Piper
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He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)
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Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.
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Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.
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If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.
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Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.
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Sin is what you do when you are not satisfied in God.
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Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.
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Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things.
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All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.
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If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.
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Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.
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The inner essence of worship is cherishing Christ as gain - indeed as more gain than all that life can offer - family, career, retirement, fame, food, friends. The essence of worship is experiencing Christ as gain. Or to use words that we love to use around here: it is savoring Christ, treasuring Christ, being satisfied with Christ.
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Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
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Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that He's crushing everything that takes away from my praising of the glory of His grace.
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Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.
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The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.
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If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.
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The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.
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