It is not surprising that believers find Christian Hedonism or ‘delighting in God’ interesting and attractive. Why should this article set out to assess this teaching? The answer is that many pastors and people are being influenced by it, but very serious cautions need to be sounded. Piper makes much use of the little sentence, ‘God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.’ Indeed, the pursuit of joy in God is held as being one and the same thing as glorifying God. In this he maintains that delighting in God is the pivotal issue in the Christian walk the central and the most important part of the life of faith.ĭr. John Piper, is a prominent evangelical preacher in the United States, who began to popularise his views in 1986 with the publication of his book, Desiring God. Hedonism means the pursuit of pleasure as the chief good, but in the case of this new scheme of spiritual living, it refers to the pursuit of pleasure in God.Ĭhristian Hedonism says that the pursuit of happiness in God is the overruling source of power and energy for the life of the Christian. Certainly, it is a very strange term, because hedonism is, for Christians, a bad word. John Piper to describe his scheme for sanctification and advance in the spiritual life. ‘Christian Hedonism’ is a term adopted in the literature of Dr. 'Christian Hedonism: Is It Right?' by Peter Masters
