Christ Community Brookside
The Promise of Heaven - 10:00am & ON DEMAND
John 14:1-7 ESV
Title: The Promise Of Heaven
Scripture: John 14;1-7
Speaker: Taylor Fair, TaylorF@ChristCommunityKC.org
>> Heaven is a place that God has promised.
"To me heaven would be a big bull ring...and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on 9 different floors….Then there would be a fine church...where I could go and be confessed on the way from one house to the other and I would get on my horse and ride out with my son to my bull ranch…and toss coins to all my illegitimate children that lived [along] the road." - Earnest Hemingway
>> Heaven is real because Jesus is risen.
>> Heaven is already working in those who are waiting.
"Heaven people have tasted the grandeur of Heaven, and therefore they long for Heaven to begin its work now on earth." - Scot McKnight
"Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second."
- NT Wright, Surprised by Hope