Church in the Sky

I am busy ready John Eldredge's latest book, EPIC - The Story God is Telling and the Role That Is Yours to Play. I really enjoyed what he had to say about heaven - it funny how we tend to have an extremely boring view of heaven...eternity flat on our faces worshipping God (with aching knees).

"...Our enemy has whispered an even more diabolical lie, harder to dispel because it is veiled in religious imagery: "Heaven will be a never-ending church service in the sky." All those silly images of clouds and harps. I've heard innumerable times that "we shall worship God forever". That "we shall sing one glorious hymn after another, forever and ever, amen."

It sounds like hell to me.

Seriously now - even though we were given Eden as our paradise, this whole wonderous world of beauty, intimacy, and adventure, in the life to come will be sent to church forever because that's better somehow? There is no hope in that. That's not what's written on our hearts.

I mean, really. We have dreamed better dreams than God can dream? We have written stories that have a better ending than God has provided? It cannot be.

I have some really good news for you: that's not the so-called Good News. Not even close.

God has set eternity in our hearts."