We face constant critics who decry the looming irrelevance of
Christianity, its impending death, and the sins, weakness, and
ineffectiveness of the Church and her ministers. It would seem that we
must constantly reinvent ourselves merely to survive. But that is not
true. We have only to wait and we will win. He has promised to come
again, that we will be where He is and we will be with Him. This is
most certainly true. But He has also promised that the old will pass
away and the new will come. Heaven is not some sanitized version of
today in which the horrors of the news are replaced with good and happy
stories. Heaven is the old done and the new begun, the today that
becomes the eternal tomorrow, when the victory of Christ brings to
culmination all things as He has promised.
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