Good post from John Piper, What Does 'God-Centered' Mean?
What we mean when we say God is "God-centered" is that he acts like that. He saves for the sake of his name. He saves to make known his own power.
And what we mean when we say we are God-centered (or desire to be) is that we like to have it that way. It satisfies us to have God save us for God's sake. We are happy that this is the way it is. We get pleasure in seeing it and savoring it.
We like to talk about God doing it that way.
That's the heart of why I'm in Minneapolis and not still in Edmond, OK. It's why I'd move my new wife and myself to a city where I didn't know a soul. I wanted to be around a group of people who had this as their foundation, their overarching theme, and who put it into practice. How does one minister, preach, and love other people from this worldview?
It's what the book Desiring God is about. Thank you, Nathan Carr, for recommending we study this. And if you want to get into my head, there are few better places to go. Maybe Future Grace would be better, I don't know. Thank you, Josh Williams, for giving this to me at Steve's Rib in January of '01. You have no idea just how much your generosity is multiplying a harvest of goodness in this world.
And that's why *I'm* following YOU.