Not only did we receive a card on Grandparents Day, we received an animated Fourth of July greeting with fireworks and an American flag. But it was a recent letter from Samuel that has occasioned this article. Both children give us a regular account of their activities. It was in the candor of a child that I recognized a budding theologian in Samuel. After asking how life was over there, he said, Here it s pretty boring.
School is still here.
Ever since the Thessalonians decided to quit work and wait for the Second Coming there have always been those end-time prophets who have assured us that the return of Jesus is scheduled for a date in the immediate future. I doubt a year has gone by since the apostolic age that was not designated for the Second Coming. With the end of the millennium in sight we have been swamped with predictions that Jesus will return at the end of 1999. The Second Coming is, in fact, an integral part of Christian faith. We do believe that Christ will come again to judge the living and the dead.