Welcome back to a new week of episodes. We have some interesting questions on the table

this week. And we begin with a question here from a listener named J.T. who asks, Pastor

John, do you ever plan to add a chapter to the book Desiring God? A chapter called The

Comradery of Christian Edenism. It's a fair question because when I wrote Desiring God

20 years ago, I put in the preface these words, the church that I love and serve has made

my writing possible. The partnership that I enjoy with the elders and staff is priceless.

There is a chapter yet to be completed. It is called The Comradery of Christian Edenism.

May the Spirit Himself continue to write it on the tablets of our hearts in quotes. So that's

where this question is coming from. This person has read the preface and it's 28 years ago

that I wrote it and I haven't written that chapter in writing. When I wrote those words in the

preface, what I meant was that this chapter called The Comradery of Christian Edenism, this chapter

is a chapter I wanted to be writing by my life for the rest of my life in the fellowship of the

church. That was the gist of that. The Comradery of Christian Edenism is what I wanted my life to be

and I have been writing it to this very day. I would say those same words about the church that I

have served and now attend and still love deeply. In fact, I woke up this morning

enjoying and praying for my church that I'm a part of and the ministries, like there's iron

God and Bethlehem College in the seminary that have grown out of that church. My life is so rich

with the camaraderie of Christian Edenism. In that sense, I'm still writing it in prayer and

fellowship. But the question still stands. Will I should I write an actual paper and ink chapter

called The Comradery of Christian Edenism? And the answer is I might. Here's one of the reasons

I haven't felt an urgency to do it yet. It's because there is such a significant overlap between

what that chapter would be and what is already there in the chapter on love and the chapter on prayer.

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