There was no temple in the city. Heaven is a place without a temple.

A Barna Poll in 2016 found while 73% of Americans identify themselves as Christians, only 37% are likely to be in church (and people typically lie about church attendance in polls).

A 2016 Pew Research Center poll found that 20% of the religiously unaffiliated are turned off by institutional religion. It’s all about being “spiritual,” not “religious,” it seems. 

This vision of the New Jerusalem at the end of time that the writer of the book of Revelation had has a lot to do with life for us today. The connection has to do with the fact that God has become incarnate in Jesus Christ.

The Incarnation: What do we mean when we talk about the Incarnation? First and foremost, the Incarnation refers to the fact that in the ma…