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Your Move with Andy Stanley Podcast

How Good is Good Enough, Part 1 - “How We Know”

Your Move with Andy Stanley Podcast

Andy Stanley

Religion & Spirituality

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Most Americans believe in some sort of heaven, and most believe that good people go there. Sounds nice… but how good is good enough to get us in?

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0:04.4

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forward slash give, thanks for considering, and now back to the show.

0:33.7

There's a story that was told of a Sunday School teacher who had a group of

0:39.5

first graders and he decided that he wanted to explain to these first graders what

0:44.2

they had to do to go to heaven. But he decided before he did that, he wanted to

0:48.5

know what they already knew, so he thought he would ask in the series of

0:51.9

questions to discover kind of where they were and their understanding of heaven

0:55.9

and what it took to go to heaven. So he asked him the first question, he said,

0:58.8

okay, kids, if I sold my house and my car and had a big ride sale and gave all

1:03.3

the money to the church, would that get me into heaven? And all the kids went,

1:06.6

no, he said, all right, same question. If I cleaned the church, if I cleaned the

1:12.8

church, mowed the church lawn and kept everything neat and tidy, would that get

1:17.2

me into having all the kids like, no, you see what about this? What if I'm kind

1:21.9

of the animals and give candy to children? Would that get me into heaven? And the

1:28.1

kids are like, no, and he said, well, then how can I get into heaven? And the kid

1:33.6

in the back stood up and said, you got to be dead. Anyway, now you know this

1:42.2

because you're part of the statistic, most Americans believe in heaven, most

1:46.0

Americans believe in some sort of afterlife, a good place, you know, and most

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