Comments on: Hope – The Church in 10,000 years http://www.jeffreyclong.com/2009/06/18/hope-the-church-in-10000-years/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:43:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Raul http://www.jeffreyclong.com/2009/06/18/hope-the-church-in-10000-years/comment-page-1/#comment-2926 Raul Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:58:53 +0000 http://www.jeffreyclong.com/?p=13#comment-2926 "The unfortunate biproduct of apocalyptic thinking is a lack of hope for what the Holy Spirit will do through the Church today" Agreed. Apocalyptic teaching was meant to spur the ideals of living each day as if it were your last, but not many people consider the repercussions of living each day as if it were the end 365 days a year. With that line of thinking, it becomes really hard to think positively (which every Christian should strive to do). And I find it hard to instill hope, or witness well for that matter, when I'm constantly thinking about how there is little hope for the rest of humanity. On a separate point, the clock project was something I had been following for a while. You should look into something called Longplayer. “The unfortunate biproduct of apocalyptic thinking is a lack of hope for what the Holy Spirit will do through the Church today”

Agreed. Apocalyptic teaching was meant to spur the ideals of living each day as if it were your last, but not many people consider the repercussions of living each day as if it were the end 365 days a year. With that line of thinking, it becomes really hard to think positively (which every Christian should strive to do). And I find it hard to instill hope, or witness well for that matter, when I’m constantly thinking about how there is little hope for the rest of humanity.

On a separate point, the clock project was something I had been following for a while. You should look into something called Longplayer.

]]> By: Daren http://www.jeffreyclong.com/2009/06/18/hope-the-church-in-10000-years/comment-page-1/#comment-2920 Daren Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:45:46 +0000 http://www.jeffreyclong.com/?p=13#comment-2920 I can understand your thinking. Unhealthy concern for the imminent return of Christ may and has caused some to freeze up and do nothing. For instance, there is a teaching out there right now that says that the Bible indicates that May 21st, 2011 is the date of Christ's return (that will be my 23rd wedding anniversary, by the way). My philosophy has always been to occupy until He does come. Keeping in mind that His return may be any day or many decades (although that seems pretty unlikely), I believe that we need to live, work, worship, raise up the next generation, etc. It's a balance of looking forward and looking up... I can understand your thinking. Unhealthy concern for the imminent return of Christ may and has caused some to freeze up and do nothing. For instance, there is a teaching out there right now that says that the Bible indicates that May 21st, 2011 is the date of Christ’s return (that will be my 23rd wedding anniversary, by the way).
My philosophy has always been to occupy until He does come. Keeping in mind that His return may be any day or many decades (although that seems pretty unlikely), I believe that we need to live, work, worship, raise up the next generation, etc. It’s a balance of looking forward and looking up…

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