John Piper has been one of the leading voices in the Passion Movement the last several years. I have had the privilege of sitting under Piper’s teachings at multiple Passion events and have always been blessed by the way that he consistently reminds us that the point of our life is to bring glory to Jesus. Piper’s latest book, An All-Consuming Passion for Jesus is a free e-book that outlines his thoughts on the Passion movement and his desire to continue to invest in students and student leaders. A lot of the text is made up of edited versions of his sermons that he has delivered at Passion. This book is a quick read, but a powerful reminder of the grace of God and the calling on my life to bring glory to Him in all things.
I highlighted several things while reading and posted them below…
- “This is what Passion is about,” he said, “the glorification of the infinite worth of Jesus so that he remains our joy when everything around our soul gives way.” (Hebrews 10:34).
- The movement is not about any particular cause, it is about the fame of Jesus.
- This is about calling every new student generation to rivet their heart’s affection and their mind’s attention on the glory of Jesus Christ, the greatness and grandeur and wisdom and strength and power and blessing of Jesus Christ.
- I just want to encourage leaders of students that it is possible to take this vision of that “sorrowful, yet always rejoicing” tone and build it into a student ministry (2 Cor 6:10).
- You were created for the glory of God, Isaiah 43:6-7 “Bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; everyone whom I created for my glory.”
- God is what is best for you. “In your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures evermore” (Psalm 16:11)
- The good service is 1 Peter 4:11 “Let him who serves serve in the strength that God supplies, that in everything God may get the glory.”
- It is the passion of God for his name and renown, and the passion of my heart to be satisfied in all of my desires.
- “I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified” (1 Cor 2:2).
- “Whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it” (Mark 8:35).
- Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.
- Whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.
- So live and so study and so serve and so preach and so write that Jesus Christ, the crucified and risen God, be the only boast of this generation.
- God’s aim is not that we merely admire his gifts, but, even more, his glory.
- Do you feel more loved by God when he makes much of you, or do you feel more loved by God when He frees you and enables you, at great cost to His Son’s life, to enjoy making much of Him forever?
- Do you feel more loved by God because he makes much of you, or because he enables you to make much of him?
- Our worship is the subjective echo of God’s objective worth.
- The foundation of soul satisfaction comes from the streaming into the present that glorious future with Jesus.
- Soul satisfaction in Jesus releases you from self-protecting fear into power.
- Loving acts of sacrifice liberate the captives.