Comments on: It’s Not About Heaven

By: charlestlee

charlestlee — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:06:16 +0000

No problem Josh. I think it might be a ping.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:00:23 +0000

Woh, I just realized that my blog automatically posted a comment on yours.

Trippy. I did not ask it to do that.

By: Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly With God « headsparks*

Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly With God « headsparks* — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:18:35 +0000

[...] (and kind of morbid) refrain to Jesus, “You lived to die.” Here is a great quote from Charles Lee which provides some much-needed perspective: When Jesus invited people to himself and his Kingdom [...]

By: Philip H.

Philip H. — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:09:48 +0000

Charles,

I’m rereading ch. 9, “Christ, the Clue to History” of The Gospel in a Pluralist Society and thinking about this post. You should read it.

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: : untitled : : » Blog Archive » My own thoughts on Heaven — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:26:42 +0000

[...] prompted by Charles L.’s recent post, though it’s been sitting in my “to_blog.txt” file for a [...]

By: charlestlee

charlestlee — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:48:40 +0000

you guys are bad…haha

By: revkevgcc

revkevgcc — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:58:14 +0000

no man! that’s the Celtics winning a championship this year…

By: daniel iwao

daniel iwao — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:27:25 +0000

i thought heaven was the lakers winning a championship this year….

By: charlestlee

charlestlee — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:51:25 +0000

Thanks Daniel for your input and deciding to jump into the conversation!

Your note about the executive is unbelievable…very unfortunate. It sometimes feels like our version of Christianity is so different from others. It’s definitely derailing at times. I’m just glad that God is able to still advance his kingdom.

On a different note, I would be more than happy to connect with you about the Red Light Movement via email shortly. Talk to you in a bit.

By: daniel so

daniel so — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:13:13 +0000

Charles — Thanks for these great thoughts. I have been tracking with your blog for a little while now and wanted to jump into the conversation a bit.

I can definitely relate to your journey — it’s really strange and disconcerting that the best we could do, according to the basic church message from my formative years, was to “get saved” and then get hit by a truck and go straight to heaven (to paraphrase an idea from Eugene Peterson). In the worst case scenario, I read a news story once about a “Christian” corporate executive whose company was caught dumping toxic waste near a town’s drinking water supply. His response to being caught was something like this: “Well, Jesus is coming back and I’m going to heaven, so what does it matter anyways”…

“My goal in life is not to “get in”, but rather stay close to Christ and his works here on earth” — thanks for sharing this wonderful idea. Seriously, if we don’t want to follow Jesus around here and now, why would we want to spend eternity with Him? He is the treasure, the center of it all.

On a side note, I saw that you’ll be in SD for the Red Light Movement event… Would it be possible to dialogue a bit via email?