with With Ernie McClellan, Bob Howard, David Rauch, Dave Martin and Pastor Dick Gorham We will grow together as we study and discuss N. T. Wright’s groundbreaking book Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection and the Mission of the Church, which received Christianity Today’s Award of Merit for Theology and Ethics. An Anglican Bishop and chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the School of Divinity, University of St. Andrews, Wright is a prolific author who is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading Bible scholars. He persuades that Christianity’s most distinctive idea is the actual bodily resurrection of Jesus and the expectation of new heaven and new earth; and that what we believe about life after death affects what we believe about how we should live. Wright is a bastion of orthodoxy, but his exposition of Scripture may be unlike anything you have previously read or thought about. Surprised by Hope books are available for the special price of $10.50 at the church office or at the first group session.