N. T. Wright Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

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  Heaven, Dying, Culture

• Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.

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  Heaven, Earth, Temples

• Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.

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  Jesus, Easter, Prayer

• Jesus' death was seen by Jesus himself ... as the ultimate means by which God's kingdom was established. The crucifixion was the shocking answer to the prayer that God's kingdom would come on earth as in heaven.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Mean

• That is what worship is all about. It is the glad shout of praise that arises to God the creator and God the rescuer from the creation that recognizes its maker, the creation that acknowledges the triumph of Jesus the Lamb. That is the worship that is going on in heaven, in God's dimension, all the time. The question we ought to be asking is how best we might join in.

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  Jesus, Heaven, Triumph

• The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

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  Eye, Swings, Long

  "Bishop's Heaven: Is There Life After the Afterlife?" by Martin Bashir, abcnews.go.com. February 26, 2008.

• The resurrection completes the inauguration of God's kingdom. . . . It is the decisive event demonstrating thet God's kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven." "The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.

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  Jesus, Easter, Heaven

• The only sure rule is to remember that the Bible is indeed God's gift to the church, to equip that church for its work in the world, and that serious study of it can and should become one of the places where, and the means by which, heaven and earth interlock and God's future purposes arrive in the present.

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  Mean, Heaven, Church

• God's kingdom is launched through Jesus and particularly through his death and resurrection; but, by the Spirit, this kingdom is not an escape from the present world but rather its transformation, already in the present (starting with Jesus' resurrection) and in the ultimate future (the new heaven and earth including our own resurrection).

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  Jesus, Heaven, World

• The resurrection is not an isolated supernatural oddity proving how powerful, if apparently arbitrary, God can be when he wants to. Nor is it at all a way of showing that there is indeed a heaven awaiting us after death. It is the decisive event demonstrating that God’s kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven.

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  Powerful, Oddities, Heaven

• Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world.

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  Heaven, Important, World

  "Conversation with “Tom” Wright on Resurrection, Heaven & Hope on Earth". Interview with David Crumm, www.readthespirit.com. 2008.

• Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.

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  Dream, Thinking, Race

• People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.

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  Jesus, Mean, People

• Often the Jesus-focused churches are leaning towards a 'social gospel' interpretation of the kingdom, and the 'Paul' churches are talking about being saved from sin and going to heaven. But when we understand both Jesus and Paul in their historical contexts within the first-century Jewish world, the issues become both more complex and ultimately (I believe) more clear.

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  Jesus, Believe, Talking

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