Unraptured: How End Times Theology Gets It Wrong

in the information age, when people quite literally carry around the totality of human knowledge in their pocket, we in the church can’t afford to pretend we know everything. We can no longer claim we have everything figured out all the time.

The New Jerusalem isn’t a goal as much as it is a way of life that is about to dawn on earth.

the fundamental problem with the rapture and the end-times theology that goes with it: it creates a way of life that stands in stark juxtaposition to the way of Jesus.

The apocalyptic life isn’t defined by sitting around and patiently waiting for God to act. It’s defined by living out the promised kingdom of God on earth as it is in the final chapters of Revelation.

the fundamental problem with the rapture: it calls us to escape, while Jesus calls us to incarnation. The rapture calls us to look only at ourselves, while Jesus calls us to die to self and live our lives for others. For all the rapture’s focus on going off to heaven to live with Jesus forever, the life it calls us to lead in the here and now is, a

The church has inflicted far too much pain on people by not making space for their questions and doubt.

what Christianity looks like when we stop focusing on trying to escape earth for heaven and start trying to bring heaven to earth.

Myths have a power to convey truth that literal events don’t always have.

apocalypse is fundamentally about truth-telling, not fortune-telling.