Don’ t Waste Your Life
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John Piper writes, “I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how to waste your life. Consider this tale from the February 1998 Reader’s Digest: A couple ‘took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30-foot trawler, play softball and collect shells. . . .’ Picture them before Christ at the fantastic day of judgment: ‘Look, Lord. See my shells.’ That is a tragedy.
“God made us to live with a single passion: to joyfully spectacle his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life. The wasted life is the life lacking this passion. God calls us to pray and reflect and dream and plot and work not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.”
Most people slip by in life lacking a passion for God, spending their lives on trivial diversions, living for comfort and pleasure, and perhaps trying to avoid sin. This book will warn you not to get caught up in a life that counts for nothing. It will challenge you to live and die boasting in the cross of Christ and building the glory of God your singular passion. If you judge that to live is Christ and to die is gain, read this book, learn to live for Christ, and don-t waste your life!
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I establish this book left in a hotel nightstand drawer in Washington DC last week, right atop a Gideon Bible. I wish I hadn’t. I took Don’t Waste Your Life with me, to spare future strangers the nagging aggravation of being confronted with this offensive and unevolved theology. Others have summed-up this book more ably than I could, so let me merely comment that Don’t Waste Your Life was disgusting. Anyone who truly thinks this way and believes this is flirting with a literal form of mental illness far outreaching mere scrupulosity. To take the ancient advice and “live each day as if it was your last” is meant to impel one to make use of the present to find greater joy. All Piper wants is to terrify his reader of what might come after death. Why worship a god that scares you so much? Why worship a god that exists to make beings so it may torture them eternally in the post-mortem state? Find a new and better god. Hinduism alone has more than 300,000,000 of them. That’s plenty to share. This book is dismal and filled with scare tactics. I’m grateful I don’t share a mindset like that of John Piper and I will now do what I can to forget everything I had the misfortune to see in this hideous waste of paper. My advice to you is don’t read it. You’re better off now lacking it. Don’t Waste Your Life? Don’t waste your time.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is reasonably possibly the most judgmental, negative, callous dismissal of non-Christians I have ever read. I reflect Christ would be saddened by Piper’s ‘ministry’ which revolves around the thought that he, and he alone, gets to choose whose life is watsed and whose is not. Christ stood for loving acceptance of the unique gifts each of us brings– not to indication one (mortal) man like Piper the ability to judge everyone and everything around him as worthy, or not. He’s also obviously anti-intellectual, dismissing post-modernism and many of the ways that postmodern thinking has richened our cultural experience. He’s clearly a frightened and bitter white man with a major chip on his shoulder. I am very disheartened by the thought that these are the book ‘Christians’ are reading to inform their faith and practice.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I’m assuming the book is fantastic as it was recommended by a name I respect, but the first book was missing the first 50 pages, I ordered a second copy, and it was missing the same pages. I was told you can’t get me a excellent copy. I was disappointed.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is a really fantastic book but it seems to get off the theme of wasting your life some. It has some really fantastic teaching in it but I feel that it could have been just a small better. I would still recommend it though.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I have no hatred or contempt for John Piper. But, when I read through a text that is supposed to be encouraging me in my walk with Christ (that is, sanctified and faith filled living – to the glory of God) and yet it makes peripheral or no reference to the Holy Spirit red flags start going up. I saw 19 references to spirit/Spirit. 4 refer to all-purpose spirit – the spirit of a thing/event/evil spirit. 1 refers to a car name – Dodge Spirit. 8 are part of quoted scriptures. In the 6 others, the reference plays a secondary role in context. Any teaching that directs people to change their lives (in this case, to not waste it) lacking the Holy Spirit, will of necessity engender works of the flesh. Lacking the Spirit there is nothing else to animate it. Treacherous.
I felt like he was trying to motivate me extrinsically. He is certainly em-passioned and driven. But it was like sitting at the table and a name is talking enthusiastically about something they want you to judge but something in your spirit is adage “What he is adage is right information and his heart is sincere, but he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” And it is not that his reasoning is unsound or convoluted.
For the extrinsic-ness issue, take the centrality of Christ, as an example. Unlike Piper, when I read, say, Watchman Nee’s Christ the Sum of All Spiritual Things my inner man is compelled to worship and amazement and like. But, Nee never directly says (that I remember) “Worship Jesus!”. Something ‘deeper than feelings and more profound than thought’ happens. The same with Andrew Murray. I’m drawn in and find myself adage “Unbelievable but right!”, “Wow!” or sometimes just in speechless awe of God. This is because they show me Jesus, my spirit recognizes it and is compelled. With Piper I can only give mental and emotional incline – which is not transforming.
Oh, and it is verbose. My life is limited, conciseness is appreciated.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5