Q&A Ep 4: Prostitution and Judas' Afterlife

Today's podcast takes place live at Annual Conference 2018 and features guest pastors from around the Southern Michigan Conference of the Free Methodist Church! Thanks to Paul Jones, Derik Heumann, Robbie Bolton, and Janae and Kevin Burchett for joining the podcast and sharing with us each in their own way.

In this episode we address things like prostitution in the Bible, if Judas ended up in Hell or not, and even suicide. We also spend some time sharing about some of the churches in our conference and revisiting some of the things we've learned at Annual Conference.

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A Heavenly Reward

Paul offers a metaphor that interprets in a rather surprising way: While Christians are saved only by faith and belief in Christ, our works as Christians play a part in a reward to come in Heaven. Working with this metaphor, Jamin surveys similar explanations of the afterlife through Jesus' teachings and then invites us to let Christianity get so under our skin that our focus becomes entirely Heaven-focused. We don't need to live lives full of earthly riches now, but lives aimed at Heavenly riches later. And if we let Heaven get under our skin enough, we may just find that even basic things like our sex drives can be called into question.

The Children of the Kingdom

We all know what it's like to feel or indignant or to have someone feel indignant at us. Even Jesus was indignant! But it may not have been for reasons that you thought.