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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.

John Piper

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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
John Stephen Piper
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O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.
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God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.
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The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That's what God did. At the loss of His Son's life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift - the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.
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I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place.
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For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.
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Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.
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Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.
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The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.
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