Brian Zahnd became a Christian as a teenager through a dramatic encounter with Jesus during the height of the Jesus movement. Seven years later he started Word of Life Church, a congregation in St. Joseph, Missouri. He and his wife, Peri, have three sons.
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Have we forgotten heaven? For too long, the conversation about heaven has been caught between two extremes. On one hand, there is the shallow 'escapist' theology that reduces salvation to a reservation for the afterlife, unconcerned with God's good... SEE MORE