On March 29 Grace Church of Swansboro, NC posted a quotation on Facebook from my book, Biblical Eschatology, as follows (the quotation is from page 1 of the book):
The
basic biblical story may be summarized as follows: God created a
beautiful world and human beings to live joyful, fulfilled lives in
fellowship with him. Through our sin we lost that fellowship and brought
evil and death into the world. However, God did not leave us in our sin
and death. By means of a grand plan which involved calling Abraham and
the nation of Israel, he prepared the way for his own coming to earth in
the person of Jesus Christ to bring forgiveness of sin and to restore
fellowship with him. He is coming again to utterly destroy sin and death
without destroying us. He will consummate our restoration and our
relationship with him. And he will renew the earth to be even more
glorious than when it was first created. His goal is to live in a
perfect, holy, loving, familial relationship with humanity, in a perfect
environment, in which all relationships have been restored to
perfection. God himself is both the author of the story and its primary
character. ~ Jonathan Menn, Biblical Eschatology