Well, we live in a culture that talks a lot about bucket lists, doing things, experiencing things, achieving things before the clock of life runs out.

Mainly it's used to talk about travel plans, places to see, places to go.

So what about Christians talking about bucket lists?

That's a question from a listener named Christine.

Pastor John Hello to you recently wrote this on Twitter.

Quote, retirees pack in their bucket lists quick before they die as if there is

no glorious resurrection, no new earth, no wonders of the new world,

no presence of Christ to sweeten every venture in eternity.

It is a very strange way for Christians to act in a world of desperate need."

Wow, that's pointed.

I feel this pressure as a 20-year-old woman too. All my friends have buckled lists as well for places to see

and travel before they get married and have kids. I'll admit I'm tempted here too to get all my

adventuring in now. It's not just a retiree temptation.

Can you further unpack this point for me? It seems tied to your themes of not wasting our lives

and of anti-retirement. But how do you balance this eternal hope for the next life while taking and enjoying vacations with your family in this life?

So let me clarify at the outset that yes I am on a little crusade to motivate

Christians over the age of 65 and those who are planning to be over the age of 65 someday,

not to waste their remaining healthy lives in bondage to the worldly mindset that earthly adventures are to be packed into our final years as though on the other side of death,

just a few years away, the adventures with Jesus will not be a thousand times better and will probably

be enhanced if we spend our final healthy years here serving other people rather than chasing earthly

excitements. I don't know how you can read and believe the Bible and look at this pervasively broken suffering world, lost world, and think otherwise.

I really don't. Baby Boomers, my generation, I'm the oldest baby boomer with 11 days short, January 11,

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