There will be no passion to draw others into our worship where there is no passion for worship.
John PiperIt has to do with seeing God. โBlessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see Godโ (Matthew 5:8).
John PiperThe task of all Christian scholarshipโnot just biblical studiesโis to study reality as a manifestation of Godโs glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to Godโs glory is not scholarship but insurrection.
John Piper