Live like you'll live forever

The font is effeminate and the cross looks like it's denoting an exception or clarification, 

but we work with what we're given!

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If your church is following the WELS Foundation Series, which takes the three-year lectionary and transforms it into a set of sermon series, then you might find the following in the front of your bulletin (and if your pastor is a true 'company man' he will be preaching on Daniel, per the recommendation):

 LIVE LIKE YOU’LL LIVE FOREVER: LIVE A LIFE OF COURAGEOUS WITNESS

Jesus repeatedly told his followers that living as his disciples would bring hardship. Living life according to God’s Law is going to make one appear odd in the eyes of the world, perhaps even evil. Sharing a message of mankind’s sin and God’s gracious salvation can cause offense. So why not just stay silent if that makes life easier? Why not keep our faith private? Answer: because we are going to live forever. In gratitude for Christ saving us and giving us eternal life, we share the gospel with others, hoping that they will believe and be saved too. Since we know we are going to live forever in the perfection of heaven, we don’t worry if being a witness for Christ brings hardship or even death.

This paragraph gives me many thoughts, most laced with consternation.

Living life according to God’s Law is going to make one appear odd in the eyes of the world, perhaps even evil. Sharing a message of mankind’s sin and God’s gracious salvation can cause offense.

Quite frankly I don't see this. Was the Honest Conversations LGBTQ Bible Study an exercise in putting ourself at odds with the world? Does our synod placing conscience ahead of Scripture when it comes to "gay marriage" causing more offense to the world or to the laity? When one of our synod high schools alters their bylaws to allow female board members, we should expect conversation regarding the historic WELS position on headship, not for the ladies of Facebook to say you-go-girl! Heck, we are the state church in Vietnam! No, I'm sorry, I don't see much offense to the world in the way our synod operates.

Answer: because we are going to live forever.

We aren't going to live forever. We are immortal now. We cannot die the second death.

Satan, I defy thee;

Death, I now decry thee;

Fear, I bid thee cease.

World, thou shalt not harm me

Nor thy threats alarm me

While I sing of peace.

Since we know we are going to live forever in the perfection of heaven

We will not live forever in heaven. We will live forever in the new heavens and the new earth. Jesus makes this clear in His Revelation to John, chapter 21. In heaven our soul rests with Jesus, we experience the beatific vision, but it is a truly unnatural state because our soul is rent asunder from our bodies. Perfect, but not what God intended for us. In heaven we await with those living on earth the resurrection of the body, the destruction of those things that remain to be shaken, and the creation of the new heaven and the new earth. When our soul and body are joined, purged of sin, we will live in the new earth.