John the Piper

John Piper, on Dont waste your life, falling in with our theme of Being Men of Enfluence. MAC men's retreate this weekend.

dont waste your life.

how do people waste their lives?

lots of ways...
Pursuit of money,
pursuit of happyness,
pursuit of status,
pursuit of power,
pursuit of retirement,
pursuit of anything but Christ.

ok, so thats all well and good, but what about all that stuff we have to have to live? money being one of them. how do you aquire the means to live without pursuing money?

money* is given to us, so we can us it in such a way to show that money* is not our God.

*also friends, jobs, possessions, time, etc...

basically, we need stuff to live, but we have these things so that we can glorify God, by using in such a way that shows Christ is the most important thing.

so there is a summary, as if any Piper sermon could be summed up in so few words... I'm still wading threw the rest.

It'll prob be NA before I post again, just cus...

and just for the record, If anyone asks, Tommy got owned twice at Blurt and like 42 times in the canoes...