.Notable ideasJohn Stephen Piper (born January 11, 1946) is an American and who is the founder and leader of desiringGod.org and is the chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary in,. Piper served as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of in, for 33 years.

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His books include winners Spectacular Sins, What Jesus Demands from the World, Pierced by the Word, and God's Passion for His Glory, and bestsellers Don't Waste Your Life and The Passion of Jesus Christ. The organization Desiring God is named for his book Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (1986). Main article:Piper advocates and teaches that 'God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him' and that God's highest pursuit ('his glory') and man's deepest and most durable happiness come together in one pursuit—namely, the pursuit of joy in God.Complementarianism Piper holds to a view of gender roles. This view says that the Bible teaches that a husband is called to lovingly lead, protect and provide for his wife and family, and that the wife should joyfully and intelligently affirm and submit to her husband's leadership. He also says that the Bible teaches that men are to bear the primary responsibility to lead the church and that therefore only men should be elders.

Piper, along with, was co-editor of one of the books in this area, called. One of the chapters has been reprinted several times as an independent short book called Calvinism Piper's is and his is. He affirms the distinctively Calvinist doctrine of, which includes 'unconditional reprobation' or damnation as a corollary to the doctrine of, and he subscribes to the view that God decreed this universe to be the.Piper believes in apart from works of man, and his teachings emphasize the need for the active and inevitable in, and enduring sufferings, which he believes is evidence of God's saving grace. According to Piper,. Historical creationism Piper espouses a brand of known as 'historical creationism', and credits 's book Genesis Unbound to explaining the view. 'Historical creationism' states that God created the universe, planet, and many creatures and things within Earth itself over the course of an indefinite time period before the first day of the week of Genesis 1, and that the days of the creation week were God changing a desolate piece of land into the blessed region of, where God would bring into existence and place them within it on the sixth day. 'In verse 1,' Piper said, 'In the beginning he made the heavens and the earth,' he makes everything.

And then you go day by day and he's preparing the land. He's not bringing new things into existence; he's preparing the land and causing things to grow and separating out water and earth.

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And then, when it's all set and prepared, he creates and puts man there.' Piper acknowledged, however, that although it is his interpretation of the text, he is not dogmatic about the issue and that 'every pastor should go ahead and say what he believes. I'm inclined to not draw that too narrowly.' Continuationism Regarding, Piper is a, however not in the classical Pentecostal sense.

That is, he believes that supernatural gifts such as, miracles, and have not ceased and should be sought by the church, in particular with regard to. He does believe, however, that the office of apostle has ceased and that the gift of prophecy in the church is not the same as the inspiration of scripture. While he believes that God's supernatural revelation in the gift of prophecy is without error, he says that today, outside the biblically recorded Word of God, the prophet's perception, understanding and delivery of that revelation is imperfect and fallible, thus modern prophecies within the church are subject to sifting.

Eschatology Piper describes himself as an 'optimistic ' and holds a view of the of Jesus and of the Rapture, which teaches that the Church will go through the Great Tribulation. Because of this belief, he maintains that teaches that a mass in-gathering of will be saved when the hardening of their hearts is removed at Jesus' second coming. He therefore advocates the importance of hoping in the at Christ's return. Law and covenant Piper does not deny of the typical hermeneutical frameworks, but is furthest from, and closest to, or a in matters of the and, but agrees with the dispensationalist belief that there will be a millennium. He says that the was meant by God to reveal and show man's to live up to God's righteous standards. Christians, living under the, are not under the law but able to fulfill its intent through faith in Jesus Christ.Piper teaches that God has only one covenant people, mostly believing Jews in the, and now that people consists of all the, or the, whether Jew or Gentile.

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Piper asserts that Israel has rights from God to dwell in that land, but not because they are merely Jewish, and Jews who reject Jesus as have no divine right of claim on those promises. Piper also believes that all Christians, Jew or Gentile, will inherit the earth, including the land of Israel, when Christ sets up the in the. ^ Murashko, Alex (March 30, 2012). Christian Post. Archived from on January 19, 2013. Retrieved March 31, 2012.

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Following college he completed a Master of Divinity degree at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California (1968–71)., pp. 39–40. Piper, John (May 3, 2013), Ask Pastor John, Desiring God. Piper, John (1998), 'Preface', God's Passion for His Glory, Wheaton: Crossway, p. xi. Piper, John (October 31, 2007), Blog, Desiring God., p. 41., Desiring God, January 27, 1980. Piper, John (January 6, 2006). News & events.

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Piper, John, Desiring God, Jesus chose Twelve Apostles for a unique, unrepeatable role in the history of redemption. There seem to be also another group (or groups) of men called and authorized by Jesus in the New Testament, some of whom are on a par with the Twelve in their teaching authority. Paul certainly believed that his call and commission by the risen Christ put him on a par with the Twelve in his teaching role. Piper, John, (sermon), Desiring God, But the spiritual gift of prophecy is different from the inspiration of Scripture. Piper, John, (sermon), Desiring God, God reveals something to the mind of the prophet (in some way beyond ordinary sense perception), and since God never makes a mistake, we know that his revelation is true. It has no error in it. But the gift of prophecy does not guarantee the infallible transmission of that revelation.

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The prophet may perceive the revelation imperfectly, he may understand it imperfectly, and he may deliver it imperfectly. Piper, John, (sermon), Desiring God, We need a third category for the 'spiritual gift of prophecy'—Spirit-prompted, Spirit-sustained, revelation-rooted, but mixed with human imperfection and fallibility and therefore in need of sifting. Piper, John (October 19, 2008).