It's Monday on the podcast, but it's Tuesday in real time for us because we're in Nashville

right now at the Sing Global 2022 Getty Music Worship Conference recording this before

a live studio audience.

Let me read it.

That was good.

We have been recently on the podcast talking a lot about spiritual gifts and speaking of

spiritual gifts, if anyone here has any inclination whatsoever towards missions, you've probably

heard about or even read John Piper's book Let the Nations Be Glad.

That book turns 30 years old this summer with over 300,000 copies sold.

To celebrate, we just released a 30th anniversary edition and expanded hardcover of that book.

For those of you who want to read it again or maybe you haven't read it before, this is

a good time to do it.

Let the Nations Be Glad.

Looking back now on 30 years of what got us done with that book, what thoughts do you

have on that book and missions going forward?

It's the most surprising book that I've written, surprising in its effect because it has

been used to strengthen the hands of veteran missionaries and awaken a desire for missions

among aspiring missionaries and it has been used to clarify what we're doing among younger

missionaries.

I've been amazed and what's surprising is that I've never been a missionary.

I've never crossed a culture, learned a new language, embedded myself in a people and

given my life to growing Christ's church there.

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