Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church Audiobook (Free)

With this groundbreaking book-available in audio for the first time-renowned Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author N. T. Wright argues that Christians never have distorted the Bible’s message about heaven and what goes on after we expire.

For a long time, Christians have been asking, ‘If you died tonight, have you any idea where you’ll go?’ As it happens that many believers have already been giving the incorrect answer. It isn’t heaven.

Wright outlines the present confusion in regards to a Christian’s future hope about Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, as well as the Mission from the Chapel and shows how it is deeply intertwined with how exactly we live today. Wright asserts that Christianity’s most distinctive idea is bodily resurrection, and a magisterial protection for a literal resurrection of Jesus. Wright after that explores our expectation of ‘brand-new heavens and a fresh earth,’ revealing what happens to the useless until after that and what will happen using the ‘second arriving’ of Jesus. For many, including many Christians, it’ll come as a great surprise to discover that heaven involves earth rather than us likely to heaven.

Wright convincingly argues that what we should believe about existence after death directly affects what we should believe about lifestyle before death. For if God intends to renew the complete creation-and if this has currently begun in Jesus’s resurrection-the chapel cannot stop at ‘saving souls’ but must anticipate the eventual renewal by doing work for God’s kingdom in the wider globe, bringing healing and hope in the present life.