Many other Christians, convinced of the “going to heaven” theory, have come to regard any talk of working for God’s kingdom in the present world as a dangerous distraction. We ought (so they think) to see ourselves as “citizens of heaven” and therefore have nothing much to do with “earth.” Sometimes this view is backed up by the belief that God will actually destroy the present world. Why, then, would we bother with it? Why plant a tree if the garden is going to be dug up tomorrow?
