Notes
- The Bible tells us we can “emulate” Christ (e.g. give away all you have and delivery your body to be burned) and not have love (1 Corinthians 13:3). If you don’t point people to God for everlasting joy, you don’t love; you waste your life.
- Am I being used by God for his glory?
- I mean, yes, in a way; but Piper says Christian Hedonism is the answer: “He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.”
- Our joy and his glory are not mutually exclusive.
- Our job: to live and speak in such a way that the worth of “Christ crucified” is seen and savored by more and more people. It will be as costly for us as it was for him.
If we look like our lives are devoted to getting and maintaining things, we will look like the world, and that will not make Christ look great. He will look like a religious side-interest that may be useful for escaping hell in the end, but that doesn’t make much difference in what we live and love here.
Changes
- Ask myself: is Christianity a “religious side-interest that may be useful for escaping hell in the end” or is it changing my actions and words?