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让我问你一个问题：“天堂在哪里?”

这是一个不容易回答的问题。不过，你的第一反应可能是往上望，又或许用手指向上面指。这是古人对天堂的看法，然而在今天，我们人类已经到过外太空，我们知道它向外伸展的范围远超过我们所能想像的——但是我们却看不到神的宝座在那里浮游。

在受死和复活之后，耶稣升到天上。祂从地上“被提上升”，又“有一朵云彩把祂接去”，跟从祂的人便看不见祂了。耶稣升到上面、隐藏在某些东西后面、去某一个不可见的地方。所以，天堂可能是在上面，但它也显然是一个存在于我们这个三维世界以外的维度中。或许天堂其实距离我们不远，它只不过是隔在我们三维世界的一幅面纱或窗帘以外而已。

然而，更重要的是，每当神引领我们靠近祂时，我们便能够经历到一部分的天堂了。教会会友聚集一起敬拜时，就是一个经历天堂的机会，我认为当我们参与祂赐给我们的主餐时，基督便使我们特别靠近祂。藉着领受和施与饼和葡萄酒（或葡萄汁）的行动，基督告诉我们饼和酒代表祂的身体和血、使我们的灵命得到喂养，在这个时刻，天和地连接在一起，我们便因此蒙主赐福和靠主得力了。

Let me ask you a question: Where is heaven?

This is not an easy question to answer. But perhaps your first reaction is to look up, or maybe to point up with your finger. This is how the ancients thought about heaven. But we humans today have been to outer space, and we know it stretches farther than we can imagine—and we have not found God's throne floating around out there.

After his death and resurrection Jesus ascended into heaven. He was "taken up" from the ground, and "a cloud hid him" from the sight of his followers. Jesus went up and behind something to somewhere. So while heaven may be up, it is also apparently a dimension that exists behind or beyond our three-dimensional world. Perhaps heaven is actually quite near to us, just beyond a veil or curtain in our 3-D world.

Even more important, though, we can experience a bit of heaven whenever God draws us close. One of the ways this can happen is when the church gathers for worship. And I think Christ draws us especially close when we take part in the meal he has given us. In the actions of receiving and giving bread and wine (or juice), when Christ tells us that these elements are his body and blood and we are spiritually nourished, heaven and earth intersect, and we are blessed and strengthened.