'Where Are the Faithful Young Men?' — John Piper

A Call to Sacrificial Faithfulness

Where are the young men and women of this generation who will hold their lives cheap and be faithful unto death? Who will lose their lives for Christ's, flinging them away for love of Him? Where are those who will live dangerously and be reckless in His service?

Men of Prayer and God's Word

Where are the men of prayer? Where are the men who count God's Word as more important to them than their daily food? Where are the men who, like Moses of old, commune with God face-to-face, as a man speaks with his friend?

Pastors Finishing Their God-Given Work

Where are God's men in this day of God's power? Where are the pastors who say with the Apostle Paul, I don't count my life of any value or as precious to myself? If only I might finish my course and complete the work that He gave me to do, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

Faithfulness in Ordinary Work

I'm nothing, I just have a job. God keep me faithful on the job, and then let me drop and go to the reward. Where are the pastors who say with Joab to his brother Abishai, surrounded by Syrians and Ammonites, brother, be courageous and let us play the man for our God and for the cities of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to Him.

Where is the Joab today? Where are the women, the single women, and the married women, and the pastor's wives who say with Esther when Mordecai came to her and said, you gotta do this because your people are perishing, and she says, tell them to fast, and I will go into the king though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.

Where are those women?