Greater Sense of Wonder

Excerpt from John Piper:  How Do I Explain Election Over Brunch?

Audio transcript

Andrew from Benton, Kansas, writes in: “Pastor John, You once described how you would explain Christian Hedonism to somebody over lunch (at Pizza Hut). Realizing divine election may take a bit longer, what is the easiest way to share this with someone, and with what key Scripture would you explain it, over, say, a weekend brunch?”

Ok, so we are moving from a Christian Hedonism Pizza Hut lunch to an election lunch. [A weekend brunch.] Brunch, brunch, ok. All right. Good.

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But the aim of the conversation would be to awaken in both of us a greater sense of wonder that we are saved and that we owe it all to God, that apart from him we can do nothing and, therefore, all of our lives should be lived in the constant amazement that we are saved and that he would die for us and that he would give us sight instead of blindness and light instead of deadness. In fact, Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1:28–29, “God chose, God elected, things that are not to bring to nothing things that are so no that no human being might boast.” In other words, election strips us of boasting, but “let him boasts, boast in the Lord” (v. 31). So the bottom line of the goal of that lunch is humility in us and all glory to God.