![]() ![]() He prospers the business so that 12 percent of the world's population can move a step back from the precipice of starvation. ![]() God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached people can be reached with the gospel. ![]() God does not prosper a man's business so that he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. In this best-selling book, John Piper makes a passionate plea to the next generation to avoid the dangers of a wasted life, calling us to take risks and make sacrifices that matter for eternitywith a single, soul-satisfying passion for the glory of God that seeks to make much of him in every sphere of our lives. They will object: Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper his people? Indeed! God increases our yield, so that by giving we can prove our yield is not our god. And by an almost irresistible law of consumer culture (baptized by a doctrine of health, wealth, and prosperity) they have bought bigger (and more) houses, newer (and more) cars, fancier (and more) clothes, better (and more) meat, and all manner of trinkets and gadgets and containers and devices and equipment to make life more fun. The evidence that many professing Christians have been deceived by this doctrine is how little they give and how much they own. ![]() “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, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. ![]()
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