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Questions Week 9, Day 5

by David Joynt on June 29, 2017


 

LUKE 15:21-24, 31-32, 14:15-24

1 CORINTHIANS 11:23-26

 

Heaven is not a long, dull sermon or a hymn with 10 million repetitive verses. It is the full experience of the deepest things we know now. Have you had a flash of insight? Imagine total inspiration. Have you been moved by a moment of beauty, a sense of connection? Have you been lost and then been found? Imagine those moments multiplied many times over. The culmination of a job well finished, a task well done—this also we will know in heaven when we see how God used our small deeds for his large purposes. For these and many other reasons, heaven is a place of celebration, and Jesus talks of it as a party or a wedding feast.

 

 

Read the passage from 1 Corinthians 11.

 

 

Do you think of communion as a celebration that looks forward to a party?

 

 

Notice the reasons in Luke 14 people miss the celebration.

 

 

 

FAMILY TIME—

What makes a good party?

A great party?

A heavenly party?

 

 

Tags: heaven

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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