Week 7: Chapter 7 — Your Best Life… Later

1.Chan pushes back hard against the idea that God's primary goal is our comfort and prosperity in the present life. Where do you see this "best life now" mentality showing up — in popular Christian culture, in your own prayers, or in what you expect from God?

2.Hebrews 11 describes the great heroes of faith as people who were "strangers and foreigners on the earth" who were "longing for a better country — a heavenly one." Chan uses this to argue that radical sacrifice makes perfect sense if your citizenship is in another place. How does your daily life reflect — or fail to reflect — a heavenly citizenship?

3.Chan makes the provocative point that living for heaven actually makes us more effective, more generous, and more courageous in the present — not less engaged. How does an eternal perspective free you from the fears and self-protections that make radical generosity so difficult?