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After a recitation of diminution toward his son, a father took a breath and the son interjected, "Where is all this going to get us?" Uncertainty is married to doubt. Their union is confusion.
Many a counselee has asked me, "Where is all this talking getting me?" "Does this lecture have a purpose?" asked the inquiring student. Many such expressions have come to me throughout my life. They all come to remind me that the simple concern, "Where is all this taking me?" is still very fundamental to the average person.
The popularity of the death and dying seminars over the last decade reveals that people have an interest in the end times. Even in my own preaching I have been queried as to why I don't preach more hell, fire and damnation sermons.
We are still hoping for something better, aren't we? Something less painful, less boring, less tearful, or less something. The change from this life to an eternal existence is still the realm of religion.
The hope! The new Jerusalem. How comforting the words come for those who have had someone die when we read the words, "... He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying nor pain any more ..." We still want this release, don't we?
The answer is still coming, with the New Jerusalem.
-- Netz
After a recitation of diminution toward his son, a father took a breath and the son interjected, "Where is all this going to get us?" Uncertainty is married to doubt. Their union is confusion.
Many a counselee has asked me, "Where is all this talking getting me?" "Does this lecture have a purpose?" asked the inquiring student. Many such expressions have come to me throughout my life. They all come to remind me that the simple concern, "Where is all this taking me?" is still very fundamental to the average person.
The popularity of the death and dying seminars over the last decade reveals that people have an interest in the end times. Even in my own preaching I have been queried as to why I don't preach more hell, fire and damnation sermons.
We are still hoping for something better, aren't we? Something less painful, less boring, less tearful, or less something. The change from this life to an eternal existence is still the realm of religion.
The hope! The new Jerusalem. How comforting the words come for those who have had someone die when we read the words, "... He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying nor pain any more ..." We still want this release, don't we?
The answer is still coming, with the New Jerusalem.
-- Netz
