The gospel turns people into pilgrims. It comes with a culture-correcting force that creates aliens and exiles of the world.

Drawing from a 1733 Jonathan Edwards sermon, John Piper offers seven descriptions of what this looks like:

Pilgrims are not diverted from their aim.
Pilgrims are to hold the things of this world loosely.
Pilgrims become like what they hope to attain.
Pilgrims will not be satisfied with anything less than God.
Pilgrims are not grieved by their arrival at the journey's end.
Pilgrims ponder what they pursue.
Pilgrims travel together.

Read the entire article, Jonathan Edwards on the Pilgrim Mindset.
http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/taste-see-articles/jonathan-edwards-on-the-pilgrim-mindset

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