Life Group Questions-Permanent Heaven
Key Verse: 2 Peter 3:13 – “We are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth – where righteousness will be at home.”
- What is the main thing you got out of Sunday’s teaching?
- Pastor Bo showed us in Scripture that rewards in Heaven are based on how we lived our life here on earth (our actions, words, deeds). How does this fact challenge you to live differently?
- Does the fact that Permanent Heaven will be a restored earth excite you? In what ways?
- Here are several of the Bible verses Pastor Bo taught from on Sunday. Which of these impacts you the most, and why?
Psalm 110:1 – “The Lord says to my Lord: ‘Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
1 Timothy 6:19 – “In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.”
- Here are several of the key quotes Pastor Bo shared with us on Sunday. Which of these impacts you the most, and why?
Peter Marshall: “Our destiny is an earthly one: a new earth, an earth redeemed and transfigured. An earth reunited with heaven, but an earth, nevertheless.”
J.R. Tolkien (the last words of Thorin Oakenshield in “The Hobbit”): “Farewell, I go now to the halls of waiting, to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed.”
Martin Lloyd-Jones: “The biblical teaching about the eternal state is very clear. Everything will be glorified, even nature itself.”