Gorse Hill Baptist Church is a vibrant church in the heart of Swindon made up of a diverse range of people from all across the town and surrounding areas. Our mission is knowing God to make Him know. This gives us a passion to deepen our relationship with God and to tell others of His love. This podcast includes sermons from Steve Robinson and others preaching at our church. If you enjoy our podcast, visit ghbc.org.uk to learn more about us.
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Where are we going? (Heaven)
Pearly Gates (that's an entrance by the way not a cockney whelk seller). Blue sky. White fluffy clouds. Haloes and white kaftans.Renaissance artists really do have a lot to answer for. Ok I know it’s not easy laying on your back painting the ceiling but I sometimes wonder why they didn’t stick to their equivalent of Trade Matt White emulsion instead of trying to explain the bible in big pictures. Their vision of heaven (for that is what this is all about) has coloured the thinking – and, dare I say it – twisted a fair bit of the church’s theology down the years. As a result we’ve lost sight of the real heaven even if we know why we’re going there and how we’ll arrive at our destination. We all have our own picture of heaven. How much of it is wishful thinking and what is real remains to be seen. It’s important, though, for the church today to recognise the relationship between hope and heaven: we are grounded, then, in our engagement with the world and with the certainty that this – here, now – is not all there is.