David writes in from Little Rock, Arkansas.

Pastor John, how would you share the message of Christian hedonism that we exist to glorify

God by enjoying Him forever from a single passage of Scripture with a coworker or a fellow

college student over a 30 minute lunch meeting?

Where would you go?

I'd go to Pizza Hut.

Oh, that's not what you mean.

I would go to Philippians, first to Pizza Hut with a Bible or an iPad and a napkin and

a pen to write on, and I would go to Philippians 1, 20 to 23.

Oh, here's what it says.

It is my eager expectation and hope that I will not at all be ashamed, but that with full

courage, now as always, Christ will be magnified in my body.

So now that's one piece of what I want because part of that statement is God is most glorified

in me when I'm most satisfied in Him.

So here I've got Christ being magnified.

That's what He wants.

Christ magnified in my body, weathered by life or by death.

Then He says, verse 21, for to me to live is Christ and to die is gain.

Now I'd stop right there and get my friend to talk with me about gain here.

What does He mean when He says to die is gain?

Tell me.

What do you think He means?

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