Yeah, I tend to be really negative about, well, everything. My beloved tells me I should spend less time criticising and more time pointing out good things. So, in the interest of that sort of balance, I’ll go on record as saying that I thought the sermon on Sunday was really rather good. Frank was dissecting the idea of “heaven” as presented in Revelation – not as the place of fluffy clouds and harps, but rather as the condition of Creation as having been redeemed to its Creator. His eschatology was thoroughly sensible and well thought out – no silly premillenial dispensationalist rapture theology here, and he even went so far as to suggest that, hey, Revelation might be symbolic rather than literal (for example, the persistent use of the sea in the Bible as being a place of danger, and heaven being described in Revelation as a place with “no sea”, meaning that the interpreting this as a literal absence of sea is rather missing the point).
Anyway, it was interesting, well thought out and I’m even willing to admit that I learnt something from it. Hurrah for Frank.