Heaven
Share
Updated
July 23, 2007
In
the book, Salt, the author describes a fictional character (thought based
on fact) who left the southern Appalachians to live and work in Kansas. When
she became ill she said she wanted to go back to North Carolina to die. She
got on an eastbound train, but died before she arrived. She died on the way
home! All Christians die on the way home. This world is not our home, has never
been our home; will never be our home. Whether we die on an outbound journey,
or die in some distant place, all Christians die on the way home.
_______________
J.
Michael Shannon is professor of preaching at Cincinnati Bible College in Cincinnati,
OH.