Guest Post: Heavenly-Minded & Eathly Good

This blog post is written by Jon Ward ,  the Associate Dean here where we serve, our next door neighbours, and friends.  The Ward family is a blessing to us, and with their permission I share with you.   


Francis Chan in his refreshing book Crazy Love quotes a famous Christian philosopher and writer saying, 

Cover of C.S. Lewis

"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this." ~C.S. Lewis

So much for being so heavenly-minded that we are no earthly good.

Have you thought about eternity recently?

The reality of eternity should change our lives as the Apostle John exhorts in 1 John 3:2-3:

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. 

What difference has the expectation of Christ's return and the doorstep of eternity made in your life?