In the year 2000, John Piper preached this sermon to thousands of young men and women attending Passion's OneDay 2000 Conference in Memphis, TN. This message has had a significant impact in my life. I hope and pray that it will have the same impact in others. Don't waste your life!
You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by a few great things. If you want your life to count, if you want the ripple effect of the pebbles you drop to become waves that reach the ends of the earth and roll on for centuries and into eternity, you don't have to have a high IQ or EQ; you don't have to have to have good looks or riches; you don't have to come from a fine family or a fine school. You have to know a few great, majestic, unchanging, obvious, simple, glorious things, and be set on fire by them.
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John is a an absolute treasure to the church. May we follow his example into deeper joy and faith in Jesus Christ.
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