SERMON SUMMARY

As the Church, the people of God, we are called to live in the reality of the present, knowing of our certain future and what is certain about our future inevitably shapes today, tomorrow, and each day until Christ returns for us. In what ways should knowing how the story ends shape the way we live in the story?

SERMON SCREENSHOTS & KEY POINTS

Should knowing how the story ends shape the way you live in the story?

“Hope is imagining God’s future into the present, and then living accordingly.” -N.T. Wright

• Revelation 21:1-5
  

“The Bible always places men and women on a redeemed earth, not in a heavenly realm removed from earthly existence. God will not concede the earth to the enemy. It will be remade. It will be renewed.” -George Ladd 

• Revelation 21:22-23
• Revelation 21:6-8
• Revelation 21:23-27

TRUST

“Everything you have heard and seen is trustworthy and true.”

• Revelation 22:13

WORSHIP

WITNESS

“I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other corny and to help others to do the same.” -C.S. Lewis

• Revelation 21:6
• Revelation 22:17
• Revelation 22:20

*We are a church located in Greenville, South Carolina. Our vision is to see God transform us into a community of grace passionately pursuing life and mission with Jesus.

SUGGESTIONS FOR COMMUNITY GROUP QUESTIONS                 

1. Read Revelation 21 and 22
2. Enjoy the time as a community group where you think and dream about heaven while contemplating how your future reality shapes your daily living.
3. When it comes to knowing how the story ends and shapes our current story…we talked about Trust, Worship, and Witness. Which of these three has the Lord been growing you in the most recently, and in what way?
4. Which of these 3 are you specifically asking the Lord to grow you in during this season of life? Take time before the end of community group to pray with one another in regards to the specific one you share.
5. When you read about heaven in Revelation 21 and 22, what is most exciting to you, and why?