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When people who are living together visit our churches or small groups or homes, it is not our first job to try to correct their behavior, but instead to demonstrate the grace and truth of Jesus Christ.

There is no implication in scripture that anyone has more access to God. We will all experience his presence because he is omnipresent, unlike man who can be only in one place at a time.

In Revelation 22, those who are outside the city mean those who are outside the city in Hell.

The most striking thing that’s happened,” she said, “is that I find myself totally uninterested in all the conversations about material things.

I would agree that our salvation is not based on our works.

The city’s exact dimensions are measured by an angel and reported to be 12,000 stadia, the equivalent of 1,400 miles or 2,200 kilometers, in length, width, and height (Revelation 21:15-16).

When logic would tell you the church would not be able to grow under government restrictions, it has grown at a phenomenal rate.

Chapter 1 excerpt from The Grace and Truth Paradox by Randy Alcorn 

The John Piper book When I Don’t Desire God: How to Fight for Joy is good.  Also good is John Piper’s book When the Darkness Does Not Lift, available online from the Desiring God website.

Recommended books on Heaven for children.

The reason I don’t address activities about the intermediate state is because there are not a lot of details given to it.

Note from Randy: I wrote this to the men in a study group I led, based on Dallas Willard’s book, Spirit of the Disciplines.

The majority text (MT) really means “a statistical number larger than another text type” (i.e., called the MT = “Western Text”). The other major text type has fewer manuscripts, but they are older and some are better preserved.