This Sunday, as our hope conversation nears its conclusion, we are going to step into what has been controversial ground — considering the return of Christ and also the doctrine of hell with a dialogue entitled, "Happy Endings?". Our key texts will be 1 Thess 4:13-18 and Rev 21-22. What did the historical church believe in these two realms? I believe that when we ask the right questions about the completion of God's work, the promises of the text become sources of good news that frame our hope. In my opinion, common conversation about these mysteries has been dominated so often by many of the wrong questions.