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 | | Don't Waste Your Life Study Guide by John Piper ISBN-10: 9781581348705 ISBN-10: 1-58134-870-3 ISBN-13: 9781581348705 ISBN-13: 978-1-58134-870-5 Paperback 2007-01-10 Crossway Books Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This study guide is designed to be used in a ten-session, guided group study that examines each chapter of Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper. Working through Don’t Waste Your Life in a group setting with the help of this study guide will ensure you get the most out of the book. It is also a way for group members to encourage each other and keep each other accountable, with the aim that in the end none will say, “I’ve wasted it!” Study Guide Features:
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Don't Waste Your Life: Disciple Like Jesus John Piper does an excellent job of calling believers to "die to self," so that we may build the Kingdom of God, rather than to living for things that will pass away. He is a master of challenging us to put our lives in perspective. Are things going well? Live for Christ. Are things going wrong? Live for Christ. This is a book for sincere Christians who are willing to honestly examine their motives for living, and then to prayerfully decide to follow Jesus more closely. | ||
A One-of-a-Kind, Landmark, Clarion Call I just love this book! After I read it, I ordered a case of 24 copies for the youth department at First Baptist Church...my home for a quarter of a century in downtown Richmond, Virginia (now I am a wedding photographer based in Winchester, VA.) This book is unique. I have a huge collection of contemporary Christian titles. I have perused many, many others at various gigantic booksellers and on-line. And never before have I found a book that practically PLEADS with today's youth generation to set aside its typical "I wanna be a millionaire" leanings and leave a lasting legacy....win souls for Jesus Christ. Christian Carswell cannot urge you too strongly to buy and soak-up this wonderful book. | ||
Piper at his best! I've been reading Pastor John Piper since the mid 1980's. I've pretty much read everything he has ever put into print. This is vintage Piper. He is at is best in Don't Waste Your life. His words drip with passion, heart, fire, and stirs one's heart to be sold out for the Gospel on almost every page. I've given it as a gift many times. It can be read in short bursts or one can finish it in a couple hours in one sitting. | ||
A Good Challenge To Evaluate Your Life With An Eternal View "Don't Waste Your Life" is another great read by John Piper that challenges the reader to do more than just to live to be happy and comfortable in this life. Among the topics covered include: 1. Better to lose your life than to waste it. 2. Boasting only in Jesus Christ instead of yourself. 3. Living to help make others be glad in God. 4. Glorifying God through pain and death. 5. Making much of God in your "secular" job. Particularly compelling was the chapter on pleading with the current generation to make something more of their lives than to just live for happiness, pleasure, and comfort. Piper uses the illustration of the Battle of Iwo Jima where over 6,000 young Americans lost their lives to win a major WW 2 battle. Piper compares those lives to the lives lived today by a lot of young Americans who live an extremely self-centered life. Being a Civil War and Revolutionary War buff, I enjoy visiting historical battlefields and cemeteries. I have spent time in those places pondering the sacrifices young people made in those wars so we may enjoy the many freedoms in our great but imperfect country. Many times I come back from such places with a greater awareness that my life must be lived for God's glory instead of my own. Read, be encouraged, and be challenged to live outside yourself! Highly recommended! | ||
A stunning indictment of self-serving, self-loving American christians. I just finished reading this book for the second time. Honestly, the first time it just rolled off me and I failed to grasp its message. This time was different. This time the Holy Spirit reached down and graciously opened my eyes to see what God is trying to tell His people through this magnificent little book. Thank God for John Piper, or more accurately, thank God for John's passion for the glory of Christ. I have read several of Piper's books, including Desiring God and Let the Nations Be Glad. At the bottom of all of it, though, is our view of who we are in relation to God. Do we see Him as the almighty, transcendent, holy, eternal, loving, just, merciful, righteous Creator who is worthy of every iota of our attention and admiration? Or do we see Him as something less? Is God there merely to make our lives easy and prosperous and happy? Is He there just to prop up our self-esteem and assist our efforts at self-actualization? The way each person sees God determines how each person will live, and more importantly, for whom he or she will live. There's a huge movement in Christianity today that seeks to convince believers, sadly with a distressing degree of success, that this life is all about us. God is our celestial ATM and the Affirmer of our own self-worth and self-image. Joel Osteen is perhaps the most highly visible example of this right now. It's a "me first" theology, a man-centered pseudo-Christianity which ignores the example and message of Christ to serve, to suffer, to spend and be spent, to die daily, for the good of others and the glory of God. Although I don't follow Osteen, I have found myself living far too much as if I did. That's our default setting as sinful humans -- to love self and the stuff of this life more than we love Christ. Piper sounds a desperately needed wake-up call to the church of Jesus Christ to cast aside our self-serving, self-deceiving, and ultimately self-destructive perspective in favor of a Christ-focused, Christ-treasuring frame of mind and way of life. By default we seek to live for ourselves and make much of ourselves and treasure the things that advance those goals. Piper reminds us that all of this is passing away, and only Christ is eternal. Only Christ is worth treasuring. Only Christ should be the all-consuming focus of our passion. God, through Piper, calls on us to display His worth before a fallen, dying, rebellious world. And He only gives us one life in which to do it. But instead we show the world the worth of our homes, our careers, our hobbies and our retirement portfolios. In this way we waste our lives. To every Christian who has fallen into the trap of treasuring this life as if this was all there is, to every Christian who has gotten caught up in believing that God is here to serve us, to every Christian who has been deceived into thinking that the goal of this life is to be happy with what the temporal world has to offer... READ THIS BOOK. Read it openly, prayerfully, repentently, and humbly. May Piper's message, which is nothing less than God's own message, pierce your heart and call you back to a singular passion to glorify Jesus Christ in every aspect of your life, and in that way avoid the irremediable tragedy of a wasted life. The church desperately needs to hear this, to internalize it, and to act upon it. I cannot recommend this excellent book highly enough. | ||