The Experience of Hope

Overview

You might say that even though you believe in most of what the Bible says about the ultimate future, it hasn’t changed your life. You really don’t handle suffering or death or other things any differently than other people. Why would that be?

The answer is because it’s not simply the doctrine of Christian hope, it’s not just the cognitive belief that changes us. It’s the experience of hope.

Let’s look at 1) the promise of this experience, 2) the sources of this experience, and 3) how we get it.