Don't Waste Your Life

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Summary: Wow
Review: Wow. What a legacy John Piper will leave to this generation in this magnificent call to follow Christ down the Calvary Road. Full of autobiographical references, this challenging book discusses how God's passion to be glorified and man's passion to be satisfied reach their goal in the single passion of losing one's life to gain Christ. The cross is viewed as the only ground for boasting in the disciple's life and as the reason for embracing risk, pain, and death as the means of magnifying Christ by making others glad in Him. Piper calls us to be missionaries and martyrs - abroad and at home. An excellent chapter on "Making Much of Christ from 8 to 5" will give solid direction to American Christians who want to embrace the call to follow Christ, yet do not feel divinely compelled to the foreign mission field. In many ways, this is the essence of all Piper has been saying for twenty-years - and especially for the last decade. This would be an excellent gift for high school and college graduates. I cannot recommend it too highly.