Baptist Press has three articles on heaven and hell that are very good. It seems to me that one reason why baptisms are down in the Southern Baptist Convention is that we have lost our belief in both. Intellectually we still believe. Dogmatically we still believe. Practically, I'm not so sure. For far too many of us, the here-and-now gets so much of our attention that we've lost our way as an eschatological people. A primary difference I think between early believers and us is the fact that they always had one eye at least on heaven. Our eyes our firmly focused on the earth. Thus for the most part I believe we've lost the hope of the Gospel.
Read these and see what you think. I'll try to comment on them a bit more later.
http://www.baptistpress.org/BPnews.asp?ID=28492
http://www.baptistpress.org/BPnews.asp?ID=28489
http://www.baptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?id=28491
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