Edwards, On the Motivation for the Common Good.
“The
message of Jonathan Edwards to modern evangelicals concerning our public life
is not mainly a message about what party to belong to, or what social cause to
trumpet, or even which unreached people to adopt and evangelize, as important
as these are. His main message is that, if we would not be infinitely
parochial, and thus fail in true virtue, then our private life, our public
life, and our global life must be driven not by a narrow, constricted, merely
natural self-love, but by passion for the supremacy of God in all things—a
passion created through supernatural new birth by the Holy Spirit, giving us a
new spiritual taste for the glory of God—a passion sustained by the ongoing,
sanctifying influences of the Word of God—and a passion bent on spreading itself
through all of culture and all the nations until Christ comes.”[1]
[1] John
Piper with Jonathan Edwards. God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of
Jonathan Edwards (With the Complete Text of The End for Which God Created the
World) (Kindle Locations 2087-2093). Crossway Books.
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