Title: The People of Heaven
Scripture: Revelation 5:9-10, 7:9-10
Speaker: Tim Spanburg, TimS@ChristCommunityKC.org

>> Will we recognize one another in heaven?
Yes...No...Yes

"Freedom so often means that one isn’t needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing. When one of us dies, they scarcely know where to bury him." - Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"Will we recognize our friends in Heaven? In fact, only in heaven will we really know our friends, from within." - Peter Kreeft

"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal…" -C.S. Lewis