Sep 21, 2026 · 32 min · 10 segments
Highland Christian Church - Asheville, NC Communicator - Jason Garris We have often reduced Christian hope to “Where do I go when I die?” While our hope can and does answer that critical question…
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And so there are a lot of practices that I think as Christ followers, we have to be able to address because the scripture takes us on a huge journey.
What are you waiting for? And like I said, I'm not talking about, what are you waiting for God to do in your career or your relationships or your prayers? I mean, to cover something much deeper.
As a follower of Jesus, what do you believe all of this is moving toward? They say some of the more developmental questions that a person will go through is, okay, how did we all get here? How did things get started? What went wrong? Is there any hope? Those are some more philosophical questions that people wrestle with at different points in their life.
If I stopped 100 Christians and asked them about the Christian's future, I think I might get 100 different pictures, to be quite honest.
So there are traditions that we're going to confront through this series because we're going to let the scripture do it.
Some picture an endless worship service in the sky, right? Some picture this ghost-like experience where we leave everything physical behind.
Guess we'll find out when we get there, right? I don't know if that's much hope.
Isaac Asimov, who's a science fiction author, proclaimed atheist and secular humanist said, I don't believe in an afterlife.
And so there are a lot of practices that I think as Christ followers, we have to be able to address because the scripture takes us on a huge journey.
What are you waiting for? And like I said, I'm not talking about, what are you waiting for God to do in your career or your relationships or your prayers? I mean, to cover something much deeper.
As a follower of Jesus, what do you believe all of this is moving toward? They say some of the more developmental questions that a person will go through is, okay, how did we all get here? How did things get started? What went wrong? Is there any hope? Those are some more philosophical questions that people wrestle with at different points in their life.
If I stopped 100 Christians and asked them about the Christian's future, I think I might get 100 different pictures, to be quite honest.
So there are traditions that we're going to confront through this series because we're going to let the scripture do it.
Some picture an endless worship service in the sky, right? Some picture this ghost-like experience where we leave everything physical behind.
Guess we'll find out when we get there, right? I don't know if that's much hope.
Isaac Asimov, who's a science fiction author, proclaimed atheist and secular humanist said, I don't believe in an afterlife.
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