Enter your typical Christian bookstore, and you’ll find multiple books recounting someone’s five minutes or three seconds in heaven. Regrettably, if you enter the house of some of your church members, you might also find these kinds of books nestled away on a shelf. I’m not surprised by this. Heaven is important. If you’ve trusted in Christ, heaven is where you’re heading. It’s our eternal home, though we haven’t yet seen it. No wonder people are fascinated by supposed eyewitness testimony.
The problem with these popular books is that they’re often based on the fleeting memories of young children and coma patients rather than the solid testimony of God’s Word. Randy Alcorn’s Heaven, however, responds to these fanciful, Scripture-less depictions of heaven with a faithful, biblical exploration of the subject. He writes with an awareness of how common and appealing the topic of heaven is, even to those who don’t know the Lord. For that reason, Alcorn not only describes heaven, he also presents the terrible reality of hell, and summons his readers to believe the gospel (chapter 3). He even exhorts them to quickly find a local church that preaches the gospel to prepare for heaven.
Heaven is aimed at ordinary Christians.
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