Interview with Sam Storms
January 17, 2010 | By: Nick Laparra | Category: Conferences
Sam Storms will serve as the keynote speaker at our upcoming pastors conference. I had the privilege of conducting a brief interview with him. Please keep him in prayer as he prepares for the conference, and if you haven't registered for the conference, there is still room!
Sam Storms: Without question what I enjoy most is the privilege of speaking the Word of God into the lives of our people. Even beyond this is the joy I experience in witnessing their joy in Jesus deepen and expand.
So, in a word, what I love most about being Senior Pastor here is preaching!
SS: Crossway is publishing in two volumes my meditations on 2 Corinthians. I hope they will be available at the Pastor’s Conference. If not, they should be out a week or two later.
I’m also working on a book on Eschatology, but I suspect it may be a year or more before I’m ready to go to the publisher with it.
SS: Absolutely! I think the most important way John has affected me is in showing me from the Word that it is actually ok to “desire” God!
John, especially in the book Desiring God, awakened me to the relationship between the two: that God’s glory is seen most vividly in my gladness in him. That was life changing in countless ways, many of which I’ll share at the conference.
SS: My first talk will focus on the astounding truth that the purpose of pastoral ministry is actually identical to God’s purpose in creating the universe! That’s a breathtaking thought. I’ll be looking at how this worked itself out in Paul’s ministry to the Corinthians.
In the second talk I will try to explain the biblical and theological foundations of Christian Hedonism. What is it and what does it mean? I plan on setting this forth in seven theses.
Finally, I’ll wrap things up by looking at the practical side of Christian Hedonism, specifically, how it gives us a strategy for the war with the world, the flesh, and the Devil, and then secondly, what pastors can do in their own lives and ministries to deepen their joy in Jesus and in turn deepen that same joy in those whom they serve and to whom they preach.
Note: If anyone would like to purchase Storms' book on 2 Corinthians for either a birthday/Christmas/Easter/Valentine's Day present I would not be at all against it. Those meditations, if they're the same ones as posted on his site, are amazing.
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