Home Funerals

We are meeting this coming Sunday, October 11th at 7:00 PM at the Appalachian Brewing Company on 50th North Cameron Street in Harrisburg. 

We'll be discussing the lively topic of funerals and burials.  Please read this article from the Christian Century. 

Here are some questions to ponder:
1.  What are the funerals like that you have attended?
2.  What are some advantages and disadvantages of our "typical" practices around death?
3.  What do our practices around death have to do with our faith?  Does one inform the other?
4.  What do you think are the advantages of a home funeral?  Could you ever perform one for a loved one?
5.  What do you think of in relation to your own death?
6.  How do you want to be buried?  Why?

Comments

[Drew]

Here are some questions for your earnest consideration. When you stand before the throne of the living almighty God, the creator and sustainer of all; will you see the holy one who knew no sin, or will you see the great white throne? Will you hear, “well done my good and faithful servant”? Or will you hear, “depart from me I never knew you”? Will your expressions of love for the Savior be deemed wood hay and stubble or gold silver and precious stones? Are you looking for the undertaker or the uppertaker?

If you are in Christ Jesus, your next breath could be eternally in His presence. So does it matter what your funeral is like?

In looking to the word of God we have a number of examples of the grieving process before and after the law. In the Newer Testament we have Christ himself exhorting a follower, “let the dead burry their dead”. We are allowed to mourn, we are allowed to weep and feel loss, for surely there is a tremendous loss with death. The question remains what sort of loss is it? A temporary separation (death) of physical bodies only to be reunited in eternity future in Christ Jesus or eternal separation because you or a loved one has rejected the truth of the Gospel of God.

Faith in the complete work and all sufficiency of the Lord Jesus + nothing = salvation