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Owen on the Christian Life: Living for the Glory of God in Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

John Owen is widely regarded as one of the most influential English Puritans. As a pastor, he longed to see the glory of Christ take root in people’s lives. As a writer, he continues to encourage us toward discipline and communion with God. His high view of God and deep theological convictions flowed naturally into practical application and a zeal for personal holiness. In Owen on the Christian...

To clarify, while God’s love “adds to us,” our love adds nothing to him.44 Therefore, “though he requires our love, he is not benefited by it” (Job 22:2–3; 35:5–8; Rom. 11:35). Here Owen is simply applying the Reformed doctrine of divine aseity, the belief that God does not need us, either ontologically or relationally, but is eternal, self-existent, and self-sufficient (Acts 17:24–25). In other words, before the foundation of the world God was not lonely, but in the triune Godhead each person enjoyed
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