Christ Community Leawood
The People of Heaven - 9 & 10:45am & ON-DEMAND
Revelation 5:9-10 ESV
Revelation 7:9-10 ESV
Title: The People of Heaven
Scripture: Revelation 5:9-10, 7:9-10
Speaker: Andrew Jones, AndrewJ@ChristCommunityKC.org
>> He wants one big awkward family from every tongue, tribe, and nation. And we’re gonna love it.
>> Our heavenly family is all about Jesus.
>> Our heavenly family has almost nothing else in common.
“What's significant about this holy gathering is that God didn't make their new heavenly bodies monolithic. He didn't make them all blue-eyed with fair skin or cocoa brown with curly lox. He allowed their ethnicity to pass over from the temporal to the eternal. That's how much he values ethnicity. That's how much he loves it. "Native, Asian, Black, and White." All very precious in his sight.” - Yana Connor
>> Our heavenly family knows only joy.
"We will know one and all as friends. We will know people for who they are and for what they have done, the formerly ignored and invisible will be highly visible and impossible to ignore, and the anonymous will be famous figures impossible to overlook." - Scott McKnight, The Heaven Promise
>> Embrace your church family now.
>> Embrace the awkwardness now.
>> Embrace the joy now.