Let the Nations Be Glad!

John Piper

Description

John Piper's bestselling book on missions (more than 300,000 copies sold) draws on key biblical texts to demonstrate that worship is the ultimate goal of the church and that proper worship fuels missionary outreach. Piper offers a biblical defense of God's supremacy in all things, providing readers with a sound theological foundation for missions.This 30th anniversary edition of a contemporary classic incorporates insights from the author's refined thinking over the past 10 years. Used extensively as a textbook for missions courses and a resource for ministries, Let the Nations Be Glad! provides a passionate plea for God-centeredness in the whole enterprise of world evangelization and explores the role of prayer and spiritual warfare. The book is essential reading for those involved in or preparing for missions work. It also offers enlightenment for students, pastors, youth workers, campus ministers, and all who want to connect their labors to God's global purposes. The 30th anniversary edition features a deluxe hardcover binding.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie

Informations

• Publié par: Baker Publishing Group
• Date de parution: 27 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781493438235
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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Endorsements
“Twenty-five years ago this book lit the fires of my soul for overseas mission work. It took me beyond a mere emotional yearning for conversions to an awareness that God’s pursuit of redeemed worshipers from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation is the driving passion of his heart. This book changed how I read the Bible and how I saw my life, and I believe it will do the same for you too. I’m excited to commend this new edition to a new generation of readers.”
— J. D. Greear , pastor, The Summit Church, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina; author of Just Ask and What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?
“There are many books that burst into popularity within the body of Christ and have brief, faddish acclaim. They are marketed well and discussed for a season but then slip into obscurity. In contrast, there are rare books that become foundational and even shape the church. Let the Nations Be Glad! falls into the latter category. Every page drips with the splendor and majesty of a God passionate about his glory, graciously revealing himself, lovingly giving himself to redeem a people who would find their joy and purpose in him. God is revealed as one who brings gladness and hope to the nations through his Son. When one sees the Lord for who he is, proclaiming Christ becomes an overflow of the heart captivated by the magnificence of our Redeemer. I recommend this book as a practical and theological primer for those desiring a heart and a passion aligned with our beautiful Savior.”
— Paul L. Davis , president, Association of Baptists for World Evangelism
“No book has had such a broad-ranging impact on modern missions as Let the Nations Be Glad! No story of missionary work has been told so well. No man has impacted modern missions like John Piper. But don’t read the book because it’s a classic, don’t read the book for the riveting missionary stories, and don’t read the book because of the man. Read this book because it will teach you to cherish God and worship him alone. Every Christian should read this book.”
— J. Mack Stiles , director, Messenger Ministries
“When working on my PhD, I asked top missiologists for their list of the best books on missions. Let the Nations Be Glad! featured on every one of those lists. This book has become a classic on missions. John Piper has etched these unforgettable words on our hearts: ‘Missions exists because worship doesn’t. . . . Worship, therefore, is the fuel and goal of missions.’ Thirty years after it was first published, may this new edition of Let the Nations Be Glad! give yet another generation of God’s children a high view of God in missions!”
— Conrad Mbewe , pastor, Kabwata Baptist Church; founding chancellor of the African Christian University
“ Let the Nations Be Glad! is one of those seminal works that is so rare its value is not fully recognized until time shows it more clearly. Churches, seminaries, and missionaries for the last thirty years have drawn heavily on this resource in recognizing the theological underpinnings to the Great Commission. By putting worship at the center of missions, the motivation and goal of missions find their right place and the God of the Bible is honored. Piper, by the grace of our God, has blessed the church, and by implication the ends of the earth, with this resource. May the King be pleased to use it as powerfully for another thirty years.”
— Brooks Buser , president, Radius International
Praise for Previous Editions
“If I had to choose only one book on missions, Let the Nations Be Glad! would be it.”
— Duane Litfin , former president of Wheaton College
“An invaluable resource. Missionaries, pastors, teachers, and laypeople with a thirst for God’s passion for the peoples of the world will be challenged and encouraged. I offer it my highest recommendation.”
— A. Scott Moreau , editor, Evangelical Missions Quarterly
“ Let the Nations Be Glad! is the most important book on missions for this generation, and I hope it will be the most influential as well.”
— R. Albert Mohler Jr. , president, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
“The best biblical study there is on the nature of missions.”
— Ajith Fernando , national director, Youth for Christ/Sri Lanka
Other Books by John Piper
God’s Passion for His Glory
The Pleasures of God
Desiring God
The Dangerous Duty of Delight
Future Grace
A Hunger for God
A Godward Life
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ
Brothers, We Are Not Professionals
The Supremacy of God in Preaching
Don’t Waste Your Life
When I Don’t Desire God
Taste and See
Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die
God Is the Gospel
What Jesus Demands from the World
Battling Unbelief
Spectacular Sins
Finally Alive
This Momentary Marriage
A Sweet and Bitter Providence
A Peculiar Glory
Reading the Bible Supernaturally
Expository Exultation
27 Servants of Sovereign Joy
Why I Love the Apostle Paul
Providence
What Is Saving Faith?
Title Page
Copyright Page
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ISBN 978-1-4934-3823-5
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2016
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Dedication
To Tom Steller

in the precious partnership of worship, prayer, and suffering for the supremacy of God in all things, for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ crucified and risen
Contents
Endorsements i
Other Books by John Piper iii
Title Page v
Copyright Page vi
Dedication vii
Preface xi
Part 1: Making God Supreme in Missions: The Purpose, the Power, and the Price 1
1. The Supremacy of God in Missions through Worship 3
2. The Supremacy of God in Missions through Prayer 33
3. The Supremacy of God in Missions through Suffering 61
Part 2: Making God Supreme in Missions: The Necessity and Nature of the Task 103
4. The Supremacy of Christ as the Conscious Focus of All Saving Faith 105
5. The Supremacy of God among “All the Nations” 153
Part 3: Making God Supreme in Missions: The Practical Outworking of Compassion and Worship 205
6. A Passion for God’s Supremacy and Compassion for Man’s Soul: Jonathan Edwards on the Unity of Motives for World Missions 207
7. The Inner Simplicity and Outer Freedom of Worldwide Worship 219
Part 4: Making God Supreme in Missions: Global Shifts and Wartime Living 237
8. Exulting in Global, Not Gospel, Shifting 239
Conclusion 261
Afterword: The Supremacy of God in Going and Sending by Tom Steller 267
Words of Thanks 271
Subject Index 273
Person Index 280
Scripture Index 282
Note on Resources 290
Back Cover 291
Preface
I n this fourth edition of Let the Nations Be Glad! , revised and updated, the hope and prayer remains the same: that people, churches, mission agencies, and social ministries become God-centered, Christ-exalting, Spirit-powered, soul-satisfied, Bible-saturated, missions-mobilizing, soul-winning, and church-strengthening. The book is a partial fulfillment of my life mission: to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ.
John Stott sounded the note I love to hear and echo:
The highest of missionary motives is neither obedience to the Great Commission (important as that is), nor love for sinners who are alienated and perishing (strong as that incentive is, especially when we contemplate the wrath of God . . .), but rather zeal—burning and passionate zeal—for the glory of Jesus Christ. . . . Only one imperialism is Christian . . . and that is concern for His Imperial Majesty Jesus Christ, and for the glory of his empire. 1
Oh for the day when all pastors and laypeople and scholars and missionaries will be aflame with “concern for His Imperial Majesty Jesus Christ”!
Where do such God-centered, Christ-exalting, missions-driven people come from? They come from God-besotted, Christ-addicted, Bible-breathing homes and churches and schools and ministries. These are what this book aims to nurture.
There is a God-enthralled, Christ-treasuring, all-enduring love that pursues the fullness of God in the soul and in the service of Jesus. It is not absorbed in anthropology or methodology or even theology—it is absorbed in God. It cries out with the psalmist, “Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! Let the nations be glad and sing for joy” (Ps. 67:3–4); “Sing praises to our King, sing praises! For God is the King of all the earth” (Ps. 47:6–7).
This is a distinct God-magnifying, Christ-exalting mindset. It is relentless in bringing God forward again and again.