God is sending us—all of us, in one way or another—to the world. We are not our own. We were bought with a price. We belong to Christ. His design for the world is our destiny. We have an inestimable treasure for the world—the gospel of Jesus Christ. We do not deserve it any more than they do. That God has chosen us to know him and love him makes us debtors to every person. If this book succeeds in helping you make it through the clouds of confusion to the light of God’s glorious saving will, the evidence will be that you give yourself as never before to spreading this news:
Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price. (Isa. 55:1)
We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
(2 Cor. 5:20)
John Piper
From the book “Does God Desire All to Be Saved?”