Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions (30th Anniversary Edition)

“Twenty-five years ago this book lit the fires of my soul for overseas mission work. It took me beyond a mere emotional yearning for conversions to an awareness that God's pursuit of redeemed worshipers from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation is the driving passion of his heart. This book changed how I read the Bible and how I saw my life, and I believe it will do the same for you too. I'm excited to commend this new edition to a new generation of readers.”

“There are many books that burst into popularity within the body of Christ and have brief, faddish acclaim. They are marketed well and discussed for a season but then slip into obscurity. In contrast, there are rare books that become foundational and even shape the church. Let the Nations Be Glad! falls into the latter category. Every page drips with the splendor and majesty of a God passionate about his glory, graciously revealing himself, lovingly giving himself to redeem a people who would find their joy and purpose in him. God is revealed as one who brings gladness and hope to the nations through his Son. When one sees the Lord for who he is, proclaiming Christ becomes an overflow of the heart captivated by the magnificence of our Redeemer. I recommend this book as a practical and theological primer for those desiring a heart and a passion aligned with our beautiful Savior”

“No book has had such a broad-ranging impact on modern missions as Let the Nations Be Glad! No story of missionary work has been told so well. No man has impacted modern missions like John Piper. But don't read the book because it's a classic, don't read the book for the riveting missionary stories, and don't read the book because of the man. Read this book because it will teach you to cherish God and worship him alone. Every Christian should read this book”

“When working on my PhD, I asked top missiologists for their list of the best books on missions. Let the Nations Be Glad! featured on every one of those lists. This book has become a classic on missions. John Piper has etched these unforgettable words on our hearts: 'Missions exists because worship doesn't. . . . Worship, therefore, is the fuel and goal of missions.' Thirty years after it was first published, may this new edition of Let the Nations Be Glad! give yet another generation of God's children a high view of God in missions!”

“Let the Nations Be Glad! is one of those seminal works that is so rare its value is not fully recognized until time shows it more clearly. Churches, seminaries, and missionaries for the last thirty years have drawn heavily on this resource in recognizing the theological underpinnings of the Great Commission. By putting worship at the center of missions, the motivation and goal of missions find their right place and the God of the Bible is honored. Piper, by the grace of our God, has blessed the church, and by implication the ends of the earth, with this resource. May the King be pleased to use it as powerfully for another thirty years.”

“I am delighted that this book has been revised and is being republished. I place it among the top ten books relating to world evangelization published in recent years. It has glorified God and helped to bring missions from the periphery to the center of the worldview of many Christians, and it is faithful to the Scriptures. May this new volume further enhance the expansion of God's kingdom and multiply its true worshipers.”

“Let the Nations Be Glad! is the most important book on missions for this generation, and I hope it will be the most influential as well. John Piper places missions where it belongs: at the heart of God's desire to be glorified among the nations. The glory of God is the beginning and end of all true theology-and all authentic missions. When we understand that God deserves the glory of the nations, and when we see a vision of the nations' gladness before him, missions is transformed in our minds-and in our hearts.”

“Success in world missions can inflate us with pride, and failure can crush us in despair. But John Piper, in Let the Nations Be Glad!, offers us a completely different way of thinking. His vision for missions is so God-filled that we will find incentives for rugged faithfulness that success cannot spoil and failure cannot quench. Densely packed, richly theological, faithfully biblical, thrillingly courageous, impressively thorough--Let the Nations Be Glad! is the best book on missions I have ever read.”

“"For getting the big picture and the big passion behind missions, there is no contemporary book better than this one. Piper covers worship, prayer, suffering, exclusivism, and the biblical concept of nations, and he does it all with an eye to the glory of God for the joy of all peoples. The first few sentences are already justly famous: Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exist because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man.”

“If I had to choose only one book on missions, Let the Nations Be Glad! would be it--precisely because it's about so much more than missions. The book's relentless God-centered focus, with its stress on worship as the 'fuel and goal of missions,' provides the crucial biblical counterpoint to the anthropocentric drumbeat of our day. Don't read it unless you're willing to have your eyes reopened to the highest possible motive for being about the business of reaching the world for Christ.”

“At a time when the church seems to be majoring in minor factors in its marketing of missions, it is good to know that we have a new edition of the best biblical study there is on the nature of missions. The best, however, has become better! After building a solid biblical base, Piper confronts some burning issues in missions today in a way that is both spiritually nourishing and inspiringly readable.”