Review of John Piper's book "Don't Waste Your Life"

Though hav­ing pur­chased a book enti­tled: “Don’t waste your life,” by John Piper over three years ago I have not really sat down to read it until yes­ter­day.  Oh, I had read a lit­tle here and there and even high­lighted a few lines, but for some rea­son (quite unbe­knownst to me) the con­tent did not “grab me” enough to really read it.  Until yes­ter­day.  What I read from that book spoke to my heart in such a way that I have decided to write about it here.  I highly rec­om­mend this book to any­one that desires a richer, fuller life in Jesus Christ from the per­spec­tive of the early church.  This book is as a good place to start for new believ­ers as well.  It’s con­tent will read­ily cor­rect a lot of what is being taught in our churches that is unfor­tu­nately, how shall we say… less that accu­rate.  How pas­tors can stand up and preach a “muddy stream” instead of the full gospel of Jesus Christ is beyond my com­pre­hen­sion.  The gospel of Jesus Christ includes suf­fer­ing. Yet for some rea­son in our mod­ern day, many churches have com­pletely dis­re­garded the idea and doc­trine of (as some have called it) “pre­cious” suf­fer­ing.  This is one of the great­est points (in my own per­spec­tive) that John Piper cov­ers in this book.  It is a very easy book to read and designed for all ages (over the age of about ten) although the cover looks like was designed typ­i­cally for the younger gen­er­a­tion.  Per­haps that is what threw me from fin­ish­ing this book in the first place.  Piper’s short sto­ries, sim­ple, but well rounded exe­ge­sis and prayer­ful admon­ish­ments uncover some very pow­er­ful truths that aught to be dis­cussed in our schools, sem­i­nar­ies, churches; as well as in our pri­vate con­ver­sa­tions with other believ­ers.  He seems to be a man much given to the cause of Christ, world mis­sions, and of course Bible study and prayer.  A great lit­tle book in my opinion.

Here are some notes taken from the book men­tioned above.  I hope you that you will take the time to read them in such a fash­ion so as to let the words sink down deep into your mind and spirit. Thank you and God bless you as always.

John

See John Piper's Notes here