Keeping Words

"Being dead to the world doesn't mean going out of the world. and it doesn't mean not feeling things about the world -- some negative, some positive (1John2:15; 1Tim.4:3). It means that every legitimate pleasure in the world becomes a blood-bought evidence of Christ's love, and an occasion for boasting in the cross.

"When our hearts run back along the beam of blessing to the source in the cross, then the worldliness of the blessing is dead and Christ crucified is everything."

-John Piper, "Boasting Only in the Cross," 2000