Don’t Waste Your Life

piper, john. Dont bolt out Your brio. Wheaton, Illinois Cross Way Books2003, Pgs 191. Since 1980, caper bagpiper has been the pastor for preaching at Bethlehem Baptist Church in the midpoint of Minneapolis. Purpose of this Book and Summary The main purpose for which John bagpiper wrote this leger was to help deliverymanians and non Christians to not shove off their make outs (1 Corinthians 619-20). John Piper wants all the great unwashed to know the purpose for which they were created and to live for it. Furthermore, John Piper tells us that we belong to theology we do not belong to ourselves because God bought us at a price.It is not all about how to keep down a wounded intent but how to avoid a redundant liveliness. The Bible is crystal-clear God created us for his glory. Thus says the Lord Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth, everyone who is called by name, whom I created for my glory (Isaiah 436-7). Life is wasted when we do not live f or the glory of God. The Bible says that, you can give out all that you throw and deliver your body to be burned and be in possession of not love (1 Corinthians 133). If you dont point people to God for everlasting joy, you dont love. You waste your live.The opposite of withering life, is the living life by a single God-exalting, soul-satisfying displeasure. The well-lived life must(prenominal) be God-exalting and soul-satisfying because that is why God created us (Isaiah 437 psalm 9014). Oh, how many lives argon wasted by people who call back that the Christian live means simply avoiding badness and providing for family. So, there is no adultery, no stealing, no killing, no embezzlement, no fraud, just lots of overweight work during the day, and lots of television and videos, and lots of fun stuff on the weekend, woven around church (mostly).This is life fore millions of people. Wasted life. We are created for more, far more If we desire that there be no shoot a air trave l except in the cross, then we must live near the cross, so we must live on the cross (Gal 614). Boasting in the cross happens when you are on the cross (Gal 219-20). I stool been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me. And the life and now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Living hit the roof Christ is costly. This is not surprising. He was crucified.He calls us to follow up on him. If anyone will write out after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me (Mark 834). A life devoted to making much of Christ is costly. If our single, all-embracing passion is to make much of Christ in life and death, and if the life that magnifies him most is the life of costly love, then life is assay, and risk is right. To run from it is to waste your life. Major Themes Some of the themes discussed in this book boast only on the cross, the blazing center of the glory God, better t o sustain your life than to waste it.John Piper presented these themes beautifully under captivating fill in topics in the book each of which warms up the heart and also challenges not to waste his or her life. There is really no story line from my point of view, but that change the fact that the themes have been treated with well organized thoughts. Evaluation Dont Waste Your Life to me is classic. I say so because, when you read each page, you sense of smell deal you are not living up to expectation, it like you are not doing as much as you ought to be doing.The book is so excite so much so that it gives a new challenge, and rekindles a anxious(p) zeal. The book makes one feel like one needs to consecrate his life to Christ and start afresh. John Piper makes one feel if a second chance to born again physically in order to make up for the wasted years, one would hesitate to mountain chain that chance. The book does not leave anyone indifferent, whether believers or unbeli evers. The book addresses every caller and culture, that is, it applies across cultures.The syllogism in the introduction of chapter five that says If our single all-embracing passion is to make much of Christ in life and death and if the life that magnifies Him most is the life of costly love, then risk is right. To run from it is to waste your life. This syllogism seems to me to be the core of Johns thought in this book. Those who view that Christianity is bed of roses can get from this book with biblical backings that there also the aspects of suffering in it. Application This book was like a proctor to me, from now, I know that I must be accountable as to how I use or spend my time.I have come to elucidate that there are thing s one may be doing thinking that they are important thinks in the side of God, just to commit after that it was a total waste of time. For example, the numerous church programs that we have that do not readily point people to Christ, rather, some flu sh discourage people from following Christ. I will not waste my life. I recommend this book to all Christians regardless of their positions in Church. This book will be of help to non-Christians as well.