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Howdy Pastor Mark Driscoll here. What do you find boring?

Boring. Think about it for a moment. One of the most boring places I've ever been.

The Department of Motor Vehicles. You get a number and you sit there and it feels like

purgatory. How about returning something to a store after the holidays. You're in the

long line bored out of your mind. How about this? I don't know if you've heard about it.

It's a little thing called quarantine at home. Do you find it a little bit boring? Many of

us, most of us, perhaps all of us right now, what we are struggling with is just bored

of them. If you're not allowed to leave your house, not allowed to go to a movie, not

allowed to go to a sporting event. There's nothing new on television. After so many weeks

of that kind of limitation, it leads to a great deal of frustration. Why do I bring it up?

Because I'm doing a little series to give you some good news in a season that is filled

with bad news. And here is what I think. I think that most people think that heaven is

a lot like this season where everyone is stuck at home with nothing to do and nowhere to

go and absolutely bored out of their minds. I think that's what most people's perspective

of heaven is. And I want to correct that today. In his great book on heaven, Randy Alcorn

quotes a science fiction writer named Isaac Asimov. He has since died. I hope he met Jesus.

Otherwise, he's having a real bad day. He says, quote, I don't believe in an afterlife.

So I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell or fearing heaven even more for whatever

tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. I think he just honestly

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