My wife and I are headed to Sacramento, CA., to attend a regional Desiring God conference with John Piper. We are looking forward to spending some time with one another, with friends, and under the preaching of Pastor Piper.
Here is a radical quote from his acclaimed book (and the title of the conference): The Pleasures of God:
"We need to see first and foremost that God is God--that he is perfect and complete in himself, that he is overflowingly happy in the eternal fellowship of the Trinity, and that he does not need us to complete his fullness and is not deficient without us. Rather we are deficient without him; the all-sufficient glory of God, freely given in fellowship through his sacrificed Son, is the stream of living water that we have thirsted for all our lives.
Unless we begin with God in this way, when the gospel comes to us, we will inevitably put ourselves at the center of it. We will feel that our value rather than God's value is the driving force of the gospel. We will trace the gospel back to God's need for us instead of tracing it back to the sovereign grace that rescues sinners who need God." (p. 22, 2000 edition)
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Does Kate have any input for us about the conference...would love to hear from her
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