Summary
Chapter 1
John speaks about how his father would speak and tell a story about this old man who comes to salvation later in life and says a phrase that John will always remember “I’ve wasted it !” (12, Piper) He contemplates the questions of “what would it mean to waste my life?” and “what is the opposite of not wasting my life?” (13, Piper)He speaks about how C. S. Lewis helped give him a “realness of things” (19, Piper) The Last section of the chapter talks about how God guided him to the career path of seminary through mononucleosis. He wanted to go to be a medical doctor but then came down with mono and missed too many days of class. While on bed rest he heard a sermon from a man named John Ockenga. Piper said after hearing the sermon, “I lay there feeling as if I had awakened from a dream, and knew, now that I was awake, what I was to do.” (21, Piper)
Chapter 2
John was not sure what it meant “to be a minister of the Word, he was not sure of where to go next.” (23, Piper) He did not know what is meant to be a pastor and his wife did not know what to expect if she was a pastor’s wife. So he decided it meant seminary, and he would try to understand and handle …show more content…
Nor is it going to be easy to live life for Christ, but it has rewards in the end. "When we embrace with joy the cost of following Christ, his worth will shine in the world. The cost itself will be a means of making Christ look great." (63, Piper) Piper explains Philippians 1:20-26. God uses suffering to show Himself to us. Piper told the story of a preacher named John Bunyan, who was placed in prison for preaching and could have been let go at any point if he had agreed to stop preaching. He left his wife and two children (one was blind) behind. He paid the price for loving and living for Christ. As Christians, we are going to face many trials and sufferings in life. But it all is for the glory to God and the magnifying of Jesus