Well, God's glory and our joy are interlinked together, C.S. Lewis saw it.

But he also seemed to say that the penny would drop on this connection for most Christians

on the other side of eternity.

In other words, most Christians will not clearly comprehend Christian hedonism in this life,

even though it's true.

So with C.S. Lewis say there are laborers at D.G. are premature.

It's a question from Daniel.

Dear Pastor John, thank you for your ministry.

You've spoken in the past of the prosperity gospel as over-realized eschatology.

Promised physical blessings being part of our inheritance in Christ,

but incorrectly assumed to be for today, not the future life.

I'd like to raise the same objection about Christian hedonism.

Is it not the case that just as the prosperity gospel is an over-realized physical materialistic

eschatology, this attempt to find full satisfaction in God in this life also demonstrates

over-realized emotional psychological eschatology.

C.S. Lewis seems to make such a conclusion himself in the reflections on the Psalms in speaking

of heaven. He writes, quote, the Scottish catechism says that man's chief end is to glorify God

and enjoy him forever. But we shall then know in heaven that these are the same thing.

Fully to enjoy is to glorify.

So what would you say to criticisms that Christian hedonism reaches prematurely for an over-realized

emotional or psychological eschatology not intended for our common life until eternity?

Wow. This is a tremendously insightful and important question.

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