ARE WE THERE YET?

Popular contemporary theology teaches that we live a life apart from God, we accept his promise of forgiveness and salvation, and we hang on through the rest of life until Jesus returns to transport us away from all of this to a place of paradise. We remain right where we are but we hang on desperately to the promise of relief somewhere else, one day Jesus will lead us away to heaven to avoid the trials and tribulations of this world. Jesus taught something radically different