- Take a few minutes each and describe one or more of the following: your personality traits, gifts, passions, preferences, and interests.
- As a group, discuss the similarities or dissimilarities represented within the group.
- What is the benefit of the dissimilarities?
- What emotions do you express now that you'd like to see continue in you in Heaven?
- How is your thinking challenged when the author states: "What we should do will at last be identical with what we want to do."
- Augustine states in his book (The City of God): "[The body] shall be of that size which it either had attained or should have attained in the flower of its youth." What does this mean to you today as well as your future in the New Earth? For example: Will we be the same age as when we passed from this life to eternity or will we be an ideal age? (Remember, Adam and Eve weren't children when God created them.)
- What is your thinking about having new abilities (such as flying, or under water diving without equipment)?
- When you are presented with the concept of having a perfect body and perfect mind, what does this look like to you?
- Genesis documents at the end of each day of creation that God said, "It is good". Additionally, the author states that no aspect of our God-created physiology (physical and chemical processes or functions) can be bad. How do you see our resurrected bodies working? For example: hunger, eating, etc.
- If you could only have one food item in eternity, what would it be? Why?
- In past weeks, we talked about "meat". Given what this week's chapter talks about on this subject, how do you like what the author presented (either fully vegetarian, or God will provide "meat" in a way that doesn't require the death of an animal)?
- With what has been covered thus far in the book, how has your thinking changed? Are you more solid in what you believed prior to starting this book? Or, are you open to change on the topic of Heaven?
Blessings!!
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