I grew up attending several Baptist/Church of God/Non-denominational churches growing up in the United States (we moved around a bunch). Until I was an adult and actually read the New Testament for myself, I had never even heard of the general resurrection and final judgement.
It seemed the emphasis was on your fate immediately after death and the general feeling was that God would review your entire life and judge you at that moment chick track style. There was a big emphasis on eschatology, however mainly focused on dispensationalism, in particular the rapture. Most of any discussion was about when the rapture would happen but the idea was that all Christians would be in heaven at that point and that was pretty much the end of the story.
I actually brought this up at once in a small group a few years ago, and the leader kind of made a comment implying what I was talking about was a bit unorthodox and steered the conversation in a different direction.
A few related questions:
- What do dispensationalists believe about the general resurrection and final judgement?
- Why the complete lack of interest and teaching about this topic that seems so important in the NT?
- Is this lack of interest/teaching widespread outside of evangelicals in the USA?
