(Someone Else's) Book Review

The Internet Monk has a review of John Piper's latest book God Is In The Gospel.

What Piper seems to be saying is this: ignore the issues of hell, eternal life, etc. The real point of being a Christian is to be with Jesus when we die.

From the review:

"This is a return to the kind of Calvinisitic evangelism that presents Christ and nothing else to the sinner; that prays for heart conversion to Christ; that preaches Christ as God's glory and not as the solutions to "felt needs." Piper's contention that coming to Christ to avoid hell is not saving faith will surely be controversial, since a vast amount of evangelical and fundamentalist evangelism is centered on Christ as the one who rescues you from the wrath to come and gives you eternal life. Piper, agrees, of course with that much of the message, but would say that if it is not clear that heaven is focused entirely on Christ, and not on golf or a family reunion, then the message is not the Gospel."

This has caused a discussion on the Monk's other site about whether or not Piper has given a definition of saving faith that no can live up to.