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Topic: Missions
Format: Softcover Book
Pages: 288ISBN: 978-0801036415
Publisher: Baker Academic
Product Code: BNAT
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Let the Nations Be Glad!The Supremacy of God in Missions, 3rd Edition This new edition of a bestselling textbook (over 185,000 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. John Piper offers a biblical defense of God's supremacy in all things, providing readers with a sound theological foundation for missions. He examines whether Jesus is the only way to salvation and issues a passionate plea for God-centeredness in the missionary enterprise, seeking to define the scope of the task and the means for reaching "all nations." The third edition has been revised and expanded throughout and includes new material on the prosperity gospel. The book is essential reading for those involved in or preparing for missions work. It also offers enlightenment for college and seminary students, pastors, youth workers, campus ministers, and all who want to connect their labors to God's global purposes. Read the Preface and Introduction (PDF). |
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Endorsements
Praise for the previous edition:
"If I had to choose only one book on missions, Let the Nations Be Glad! would be it--precisely because it's about so much more than missions. The book's relentless God-centered focus, with its stress on worship as the 'fuel and goal of missions,' provides the crucial biblical counterpoint to the anthropocentric drumbeat of our day. Don't read it unless you're willing to have your eyes reopened to the highest possible motive for being about the business of reaching the world for Christ." —Duane Litfin, president, Wheaton College
"Piper reminds us that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." —Elisabeth Elliot, author of Passion and Purity
"At a time when the church seems to be majoring in minor factors in its marketing of missions, it is good to know that we have a new edition of the best biblical study there is on the nature of missions. The best, however, has become better! After building a solid biblical base, Piper confronts some burning issues in missions today in a way that is both spiritually nourishing and inspiringly readable." —Ajith Fernando, national director, Youth for Christ/Sri Lanka
"John Piper's revision of Let the Nations Be Glad! is a great example of what 'new and improved' should mean. This edition contains enhanced and updated discussions and two new chapters that explore the practical implications of the central thesis, making it even more valuable than the original. Piper has taken an already significant book and updated and expanded it to make an invaluable resource that keeps worship at the center of the church's purpose and shows both theologically and practically what that means for mission in the modern world. I will be drawing from his work in my thinking, teaching, and writing--in addition to my worshiping--for years to come. Missionaries, pastors, teachers, and laypeople with a thirst for God's passion for himself and the peoples of the world will be challenged and encouraged. I offer it my highest recommendation." —A. Scott Moreau, editor, Evangelical Missions Quarterly
"No one has done a better job of turning our faces and hearts toward the true and living God than John Piper. And just when you think you have heard all there is to hear on the topic, he shows up again with another biblically insightful nudge that confronts the smallness of our worldview with the global greatness of God's passion for the lost. Please read this book." —Joseph M. Stowell, president, Cornerstone University
"Success in world missions can inflate us with pride, and failure can crush us in despair. But John Piper, in Let the Nations Be Glad!, offers us a completely different way of thinking. His vision for missions is so God-filled that we will find incentives for rugged faithfulness that success cannot spoil and failure cannot quench. Densely packed, richly theological, faithfully biblical, thrillingly courageous, impressively thorough--Let the Nations Be Glad! is the best book on missions I have ever read." —Raymond C. Ortlund Jr., senior pastor, Christ Presbyterian Church, Nashville, Tennessee
"Passion. Theology. Exegesis. Relevance. John Piper weaves them all together in Let the Nations Be Glad!" —Leith Anderson, president, National Association of Evangelicals
"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. John Piper places missions where it belongs: at the heart of God's desire to be glorified among the nations. The glory of God is the beginning and end of all true theology--and all authentic missions. When we understand that God deserves the glory of the nations, and when we see a vision of the nations' gladness before him, missions is transformed in our minds--and in our hearts." —R. Albert Mohler Jr., president, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
"I am delighted that this book has been revised and is being republished. I place it among the top ten books relating to world evangelization published in recent years. It has glorified God and helped to bring missions from the periphery to the center of the worldview of many Christians, and it is faithful to the Scriptures. May this new volume further enhance the expansion of God's kingdom and multiply its true worshipers." —Patrick Johnstone, author of Operation World
"If you want to be a good preacher, study the best preachers. John Piper is one of them." —Luis Palau, Luis Palau Evangelistic Association
Testimonies
I can say without exaggeration that Piper's writing in the first chapter of Let the Nations be Glad has more profoundly impacted my life, ministry direction and theology than any other single chapter of any book (outside those of Scripture) that I have ever read. I am thankful to God that the theological and practical gap that once existed between the worlds of worship and missions is closing. I am eternally grateful that we live in a day when we are seeing God move powerfully to hasten the fulfillment of His promise in Isaiah 61:11: "...As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, So the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
"I wish to inform you that the four books I requested from Pastor Piper have been received. What a generosity! I seize this opportunity to convey my gratitude to Pastor Piper, the entire brothers and sisters in the Lord of Desiring God in Minnesota. I will study all the four books seriously with prayers so that I can grow spiritually to become a mature Christian in order to bear much fruit to the glory of God."
The Lord began dealing with my heart concerning missions, particularly frontier missions, beginning in the summer of 1997… To make a long story short, Desiring God pushed me to the brink of surrendering to full-time missions, Let the Nations Be Glad pushed me over the brink and now, by God's grace, the principles contained in Future Grace will keep me there. My family and I are willing to learn to "walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Corinthians 5:7) and "be content, whatever the circumstances" (Philippians 4:11) in a way that we've never had to before. We have applied for missionary training…and will hopefully begin training in August.
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