To be heavenly-minded means that we grasp heaven not through the faculties of sight, but through something deeper: by the Spirit and by faith. Daniel Brown, author and pastor, gives a helpful analogy. He could show us, he says, a photograph of his friends, and you’d literally see what they look like. And yet you’d still know almost nothing about them: their quirks, their virtues, the way they move, the timbre and inflection of their voices, their ways with others. A mere physical representation of people is perhaps the least interesting and least informative thing about them. The deeper things
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