"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
Go, send, or disobey.
More John Piper (artist) quotes
"Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.
"...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.
"Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others
"Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said h...
"God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nati...
"Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a reconciled and redeemed humanity from every people g...
"The aim of the gospel is the creation of people who are passionate for doing good rather than settling for the passionless avoidance of evil.
"God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneduca...
"On the contrary, Christian Hedonists are persuaded with Edwards that the only affections that magnify God's value are those that come from true appreh...
"The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.
"A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.
"Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He wil...
"God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suffering; it didn’t just happen to Him. He chose it a...
"Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they a...