Discussion Questions - Session 8
1. What makes you most anxious about the future? What does the Biblical story offer by way of comfort? How can the Christian community help us face our anxieties about the future?
2. Some Christians believe that the end of the world is coming soon and focus much on their attention on figuring out when. What the advantages and disadvantages of reading the Bible in this way?
3. How does confidence about the future create freedom in the present? What are some of the things that Christians might devote their time to if they believe that God has promised to secure for all of us a good end?
Read Revelation 21:1-8
4. How do you hear the promises God makes in this chapter about a new heaven and a new earth?
5. How do you think the original Christians receiving this letter heard them?
6. How can this text encourage us in our lives of faith and service today?
Read 1 Corinthians 13
7. How does Paul's discussion of what we can and cannot know, et in the context of his discussion of love, help us think about the future and our life of faith?
8. How does Paul suggest we balance our perhaps understandable desire to know the future and out present need to care for our neighbors all around us?
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