Let the Nations Be Glad! The Supremacy of God in Missions, 30th Anniversary ed.
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Overview
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.
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- Provides a passionate plea for God-centeredness in the whole enterprise of world evangelization
- Incorporates insights from the author's refined thinking over the past 10 years
- Explores the role of prayer and spiritual warfare
- Part 1: Making God Supreme in Missions: The Purpose, the Power, and the Price
- Part 2: Making God Supreme in Missions: The Necessity and Nature of the Task
- Part 3: Making God Supreme in Missions: The Practical Outworking of Compassion and Worship
- Part 4: Making God Supreme in Missions: Global Shifts and Wartime Living
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?
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
- Title: Let the Nations Be Glad! The Supremacy of God in Missions
- Author: John Piper
- Edition: 30th Anniversary
- Publisher: Baker Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 289
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Missions › Theory; God (Christianity) › Worship and love
- ISBNs: 9781493438259, 9781540963895, 9781493438235, 9781493438242, 1540963896, 1493438239, 1493438247, 1493438255
- Resource ID: LLS:LTN30NNVRSRYDTN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-12-16T18:04:11Z
John Piper (b. 1946) is a widely respected theologian and bestselling author who serves as founder and lead teacher at Desiring God and is chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, Piper served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church. He has authored more than 50 books, and more than 30 years of his preaching and writing are available free of charge at desiringGod.org. Piper resides in the Minneapolis area with his wife of 51 years, and has five children and 14 grandchildren.
Piper attended Wheaton College where he majored in literature and minored in philosophy. He completed his Bachelor of Divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary, where he studied under Dr. Daniel Fuller. Piper received his Doctorate in Theology from the University of Munich and taught biblical studies for six years at Bethel College.
In 1994, Piper founded Desiring God Ministries, which provides Piper’s sermons, articles, and information on titles he has authored. One of his bestsellers, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist, prompted the name of the ministry.
Several of Piper’s books have been Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Christian book award winners including What Jesus Demands from the World, Pierced by the Word, and God’s Passion for His Glory. The Crossway John Piper Collection (39 vols.) includes 39 titles from Piper, including Love Your Enemies and A Hunger for God. His preaching ministry of more than 30 years is available in the John Piper Sermon Archive (1980–2014).
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