God's Homecoming with N.T. Wright

“Most people today imagine that the point of Christianity is ‘to go to heaven when you die.’ That’s what most believers believe. It’s what most unbelievers believe. They are all wrong. The point of Christianity is not that we should go to heaven. The point of Christianity is that heaven should come to us.” - God's Homecoming This sentence is the opening of the new book, God’s Homecoming, by N.T. Wright. This central theme continues a message that Dr. Wright started sharing in Surprised By Hope and continues now with even more fervor and urgency as he focuses in on how understanding this message affects how we read the Bible. He says, “The Bible speaks with one voice of God coming to live with humans. Of God coming to be at home with us humans.” I’m honored today to be joined by N.T. Wright. Dr. Wright is one of the world’s leading Bible scholars, currently serving as senior research fellow at Wycliffe Hall at Oxford University. He is the former Bishop of Durham and author of many books including Simply Christian, Simply Jesus, Paul: A Biography, and the New Testament for Everyone Commentary series. Today I talk with Dr. Wright about this theme of God’s homecoming and the implications it has for how we read the Bible, what we think about God, what we think about ourselves and all of creation, and much more. Plus, stay through to the end as I have Dr. Wright answer some fun speed round questions and you may even get to hear him sing. Doable Discipleship is a Saddleback Church podcast produced and hosted by Jason Wieland. It premiered in 2017 and now offers more than 450 episodes. Episodes release every Tuesday on your favorite podcast app and on the Saddleback Church YouTube Channel (   / saddleback  . Subscribe to the Doable Discipleship podcast at Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...) or Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/1Zc9nuw...) Resources Related to This Episode: https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Homecomin... Related Doable Discipleship Episodes: Navigating the Bible: Romans -    • Navigating The Bible: Romans   Navigating the Bible: Acts -    • Navigating The Bible: Acts   Navigating the Bible: John -    • Navigating The Bible: John   Navigating the Bible: Luke -    • Navigating The Bible: Luke   Navigating the Bible: Mark -    • Navigating the Bible: Mark   Navigating the Bible: Matthew -    • Navigating the Bible: Matthew   Navigating the Bible: Psalms -    • E426 Navigating the Bible: Psalms   Navigating the Bible: Job -    • E424 Navigating the Bible: Job   Navigating the Bible: Exodus -    • E391 Navigating The Bible: Exodus   Navigating the Bible: Genesis -    • E389 Navigating The Bible: Genesis   Knowing God Through the Old Testament -    • E462 Knowing God Through the Old Testament...   The Invitation of Confession -    • E449 The Invitation to Confession with Jam...   The Urgency of Grace in a Worn-Out World -    • E441 The Urgency of Grace in a Worn Out Wo...   Inspiring Dreams by Keys of Moon |   / keysofmoon   Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Photo Credit: Ken Sharp