Comments on: Looking Forward to Heaven http://www.worshipmatters.com/2007/01/looking-forward/ Resources for Leading Worship from Bob Kauflin Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:33:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Kyle Carlson http://www.worshipmatters.com/2007/01/looking-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-978 Kyle Carlson Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:24:20 +0000 http://www.worshipmatters.com?p=251#comment-978 This post makes me really excited about your book. Grace to you as you walk it through the last stages this year. Kyle This post makes me really excited about your book. Grace to you as you walk it through the last stages this year.

Kyle

]]> By: Ian McConnell http://www.worshipmatters.com/2007/01/looking-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-977 Ian McConnell Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:46:07 +0000 http://www.worshipmatters.com?p=251#comment-977 Yes! Thank you for this post. Our celebration of the gospel here is a foretaste of our celebration of the gospel there! What has been invigorating for me to meditate on recently is that although I look forward to being there completely, there is a sense that I go there through Jesus every time I gather with the church to worship here. Paul teaches concerning the church in Ephesians 2:22, "In him you are also being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit." The writer of Hebrews invites us to draw near to the holy places through the blood of Christ in 10:22 and the holy places are defined in 9:24 as "heaven itself." Our corporate worship is literally a heaven on earth experience where we encounter the presence of God through the accomplishments of Christ’s atoning death! "How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! For my soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God" Psalm 84:1-2 Yes! Thank you for this post. Our celebration of the gospel here is a foretaste of our celebration of the gospel there!

What has been invigorating for me to meditate on recently is that although I look forward to being there completely, there is a sense that I go there through Jesus every time I gather with the church to worship here.

Paul teaches concerning the church in Ephesians 2:22, “In him you are also being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.”

The writer of Hebrews invites us to draw near to the holy places through the blood of Christ in 10:22 and the holy places are defined in 9:24 as “heaven itself.”

Our corporate worship is literally a heaven on earth experience where we encounter the presence of God through the accomplishments of Christ’s atoning death!

“How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! For my soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God” Psalm 84:1-2

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