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John Piper – Why should I want to be a Christian?

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24 Responses to “John Piper – Why should I want to be a Christian?”

  1. id rather be with my friends in hell than with the one who sent them there? in heaven. if your version of God is willing to subject me to eternal torment simply because im not one of his people, than i dont see any difference between him and Kim Jong Ill.

  2. given all ofpipers high pressure ranting he has no honest reason why he wants to be a christian.

    But as I learn to disregard the poison of the likes of him i find that the lord offers me joy and? peace IN THIS LIFE.

    something piper , with his demands “to pay the price”, “take risks for god”, “never come to god if you want a good life” etc knows nothing about

  3. I’m in the lords righteous army and my name is written in the book of life? -3

  4. I <3 being a Christian :D Follower of Christ till my very last breath !?

  5. yay christianity!? :)

  6. @polopowers1 How would an explanation of the theological tenants of calvinism help someone who is wondering why they? should become a christian? Besides, he is answering the question.

  7. @polopowers1? You’re an idiot. He’s answering the question not giving a self-directed explanation of justification and his view of calvanism.

  8. @polopowers1? But all sinners and Christians desire, we as christians just go to jesus and live by him. It’s our job to point people to God/Jesus in order to satisfy their desire.

  9. All men are powerless to become “Christian” so how can I want to be one? duh This? man claims to a five point Calvinist.He should know depraved sinners do not desire the Nature of Christ

  10. PusciferLover976 on January 24th, 2012 at 9:02 am

    @mizzoufanatic5? Amen my brother!

  11. @pulse0fmagg0ts These are the words you spelled wrong: Find; steal; stuff; religion; believe; you; beliefs; does; that; religion (again); and hypocritical. That’s not even the punctuation mistakes. Christianity does not call anyone evil, everyone is loved in? God’s eyes. So we as Christians, strive to love everyone like Christ does. Here’s something to remember, if you’re going to post your opinion on something this this, and you want people to respect your opinion, you should type correctly.

  12. you know what i finde funny the Christians steel stuf from the religon i belive in but yet they call? us EVIL and say we are wrong if we are so wrong why did u steal some of our belifes dose that make tht whole religoin a hipporitcal religon?

  13. I know about a lot of religions that came before and after Christianity and they are all the religion of Satan. Christ is the only way to heaven because he is God and guess what… He is the ONLY ONE that can save you. You cannot save yourself? but the devil would love for you to go on thinking that you can. Religion isnt the answer!! Jesus Christ is the only answer. repent and believe in him

  14. @Flozzee lol you are a follower. your following a religion blindly with out knowing any origines of religions BEFORE christianity which is a fairly? new religion

  15. @blkhawk60 God is real, sin is real, Hell is real, thats? why

  16. I wish he preached at my Church :D ?

  17. patchyace
    Search on the web for The Bible and archealogoy, The Dead Sea Scrolls, The BIble and scientific proof, The Bible and Historical Evidence, The Authors Of The? Bible, Prophecies Of The Bible.
    So many fulfilled prophecies.
    I’ll pray for you God Bless you.
    Don’t forget to read The Bible and you will see that Christian faith is the only faith that doesn’t contradict itself!

  18. patchyace
    When I was 15 I started to doubt that my faith was the right faith and later on I tried to study Christianity and what I? found was that there no book nor will there ever be like The Bible. READ THE BIBLE!

  19. goldeneverglade on January 24th, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    A fantastic place to start would be the book ‘The Reason for? God’ by Tim Keller. He’s really straight forward and explains all the jargon that Christians can say without even realising it. ‘Vintage Jesus’ by Mark Driscoll is another fantastic book. Really funny in parts too. Both are really easy to read and understand.? Hope this helps

  20. goldeneverglade on January 24th, 2012 at 1:06 pm

    A fantastic place to start would be the book ‘The Reason? for God’ by Tim Keller. He’s really straight forward and explains all the jargon that Christians can say without even realising it. ‘Vintage Jesus’ by Mark Driscoll is another fantastic book. Really funny in parts too. Both are really easy to read and understand.? Hope this helps

  21. You’re an atheist, correct? You are also watching and commenting on THIS video, correct? Just ask yourself, why? why watch it? Is there truth to some of this or is? it all a bunch of baloney?

  22. so i am an athiest, well im not sure because for like 15 years i have ‘known’ that god is not real, thats what i thought and that belief and the? determination to disprove it has pushed me to become the best i can be at science but know i am starting to have doubts and i was wondering if like blkhawk60 said u could help me with that without all the metaphores, thanks patchyace =]

  23. now then, im an athiest remember as an athiest i the words “jesus will save you” or deep spiritual metaphors you have to be a christian to understand fully, mean nothing to me.

    ive been thinking about christianity, why should i be a christian?? thanks

  24. Great stuff Pastor John,? you’re such an encouragement…thankyou!

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