Use this guide in your small group, house church or class to create discussion and convey biblical truth about how we should live now in
light of the future reality.
Play and fantasy were no longer to be seen simply as therapies for a rationalistic and hyperactivistic bourgeois culture; they were to become a new «root metaphor» for that culture (as Miller put it in Gods and Games [Harper & Row, 1971]-RRB-, the
source of a future reality - principle for millions of moderns emancipated by affluence for a career of creative self - mastery.
The gospel invites us to begin right here and right now to experience
some of these future realities by how we live and love and act among each other in this life.
While this perfect reunion between heaven and earth will never fully be accomplished until Jesus Christ returns and the new heavens and new earth are recreated as one, the goal of the gospel is that we live now in light
of that future reality.
When people see our lives lived in light
of this future reality, they recognize the desires of their hearts, and will long to join with us in our gospel - filled lives.