While quickly reading through John Piper’s book Let The Nations Be Glad – The Supremacy of God in Missions today, I ran across the following quote. As I read it, I was struck by the accuracy of it and how we should all view our lives through the lens of a wartime mentality.
The point is: a $70,000 salary does not have to be accompanied by a $70,000 lifestyle. God is calling us to be conduits of his grace, not cul-de-sacs. Our great danger today is thinking that the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn’t. Copper will do. No matter how grateful we are, gold will not make the world think that our God is good; it will make people think that our God is gold. That is no honor to the supremacy of his worth (106).
May God forgive us for our lack of missions mindset in our present attempt to capture the American dream.
Pastor Josh Buice
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