Surprised by Hope,
by NT Wright.
The book makes some interesting and controversial claims about hope, life, heaven, and hell.
Basically, the entire book revolves around the Lord's Prayer when it says,
"Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
The point of this prayer, is to live life on earth as it would be lived in heaven.
What does that mean?
That means loving God so much that we can't help but to love one another and serve one another with all that we are capable of.
The book talks about how the way we choose to live our life on earth will be the same way we choose to life our life after we die. Our heart can be either full of love & kindness, or full of selfishness.
However, the main point of the book is that we need to live life like heaven doesn't matter.
Our hope should not be in ultimately getting to heaven, floating on clouds or whatever we think heaven would be like.
Our hope is in living life like heaven is now.
Serving one another. Developing our heart now into a heart that is full of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
It brings a whole new meaning to the word "meaning".
All of this was in the first two chapters and we had some terrific conversations.
Interested to see how the rest of the book is.
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Gracie
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