The following message is by pastor John Piper. More information from desiring God is available at

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Father, you know what needs to be talked about here and we could talk about a thousand things.

And some of them would be less helpful and some more

more. And so would you guide the folks both who should ask and what they ask and then give me

words Lord that would be faithful to scripture and pastorally sensitive and broadly helpful.

Let your name be exalted, let pride be humbled, I pray, and grant that wisdom would be granted to people's

lives and encouragement and help in whatever way is needed in this room.

So make this a really useful time for your glory and for our good.

I pray in Jesus' name.

Amen. I think we'll go out there. There's a stack here, but I would like to encourage the people,

even I haven't looked at these and I like to see the face and hear the voice of the people asking

a question so that I know where it's coming from.

It really is helpful to me.

So I'm going to let you go first and if you don't have any questions I'll look at this pile but raise your hand and

I don't know whether I should do the one to calling but you know let's go over there and then just kind of move across so there was one right in here next and and

do it this way.

One of the aspects of election that I personally struggle with, I mean I celebrate the fact that God is calling me an undeserving center to be saved and I thank God for that and I give him all the glory.

But over the last couple of years,

I've, thanks to a couple of fantastic friends,

have been turned on to your ministry

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