I used to use the term "evangelical" to describe myself, but given the usage of that term in the last ten or so years, I've stopped, and I just consider myself

I used to use the term "evangelical" to describe myself, but given the usage of that term in the last ten or so years, I've stopped, and I just consider myself a Christian. That's a preface to what I really wanted to say, which is that having been in various kinds of evangelical-like churches for the past 50 or so years, and having heard a lot of sermons both good and bad (and by "bad" I mainly mean boring, only occasionally something wrong), I've never heard much about heaven or hell; in fact, I can think of precisely one sermon that really gave the topic of heaven much thought, and none that talked about hell. I'm at a loss to explain why your experience and mine are so different. BTW, if you've read C.S. Lewis's Voyage of the Dawn Treader, I have always thought that the monopods (duffers) were a congregation, and their chief a pastor who is constantly preaching boringly obvious things: "And what I say is, when chaps are visible, why, they can see one another." And such like.