Because The Church Doesn't Really Have Heaven On Its Mind, It Tends To Be Self-indulgent, Self-centered, Weak, And Materialistic. Our Present Comforts Consume Too Much Of Our Thoughts, And If We're Not Careful, We Inevitably End Up Inventing Wrong Fantasies About Heaven - Or Thinking Very Little Of Heaven At All. - SearchQuotes

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Because the church doesn't really have heaven on its mind, it tends to be self-indulgent, self-centered, weak, and materialistic. Our present comforts consume too much of our thoughts, and if we're not careful, we inevitably end up inventing wrong fantasies about heaven - or thinking very little of heaven at all.

John Macarthur

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