The Importance of the Present

Many people today including sadly many Christians think that because this world is just a shabby old bad thing God's going to throw it in the trash and take us somewhere else. What you do in the present in the power of the spirit matters for the future with your own body as Paul says. The Western church in the last two or three hundred years has drifted into a sort of semi-platonism in which going to heaven is the only thing that really matters but our forebears knew better than that. It's time to put the picture back together again and get the church and the world back on track with the good news not only of Jesus resurrection but of a new world which we