Important Questions

In this blog I (for now) want to discuss two of the wonderful gifts that have been bestowed on us by our Heavenly Father: our eternal hope of new creation, and the spiritual family of God that we enjoy now.

Both eschatology and ecclesiology are enormous fields, but in this exercise I really want to look at the intersection of these two areas of theology. Namely, two questions:

1. How does eternity influence the church (it's polity, programs, relationships, etc)?
2. How does the community of faith image eternity (how does it show us what new creation will be like)?

I think these are important questions. First, because so much of church "stuff" is just stuff -- meetings and budgets and newsletters and the like. How much of a church's board meetings is about mere stuff and not the stuff of eternity?

Second, we are such materialists. We need eternal values -- and where else are you going to see such things other than within the community of belivers?

I hope to add others to this journey along the way. After all, how can one have a blog about community without a community? We'll see if anyone else wants to come alongside.