Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Painfully repetitive - straining for something new

John Piper has joked about the fact that he really only wrote one book, "Desiring God", and all his others are elaborations on that.It isn't a joke.This little book will make you feel like you're stuck in the movie "Groundhog Day." Every chapter is essentially saying the same thing.I also get the feeling that Piper is always looking for some new way of saying something that we've all heard before. Even the title, "God is the gospel", makes you stop and scratch your head. What? What does that mean? Well, it means God's goal is to have us realize the pursuit of Him is the ultimate joy in life. There, I just gave you the theme of this book.By the way, I'm reformed and think John Piper's work on Romans is probably the best I've ever heard. So, this isn't coming from a critic of the man or his ministry.This book is really repetitive and not something I would recommend.