The primacy of following Jesus creates relationships with others who follow Jesus. Following Jesus informs shared ethical and moral frameworks as we live in community with other believers. It is following Jesus that gives rise to our ethical and moral frameworks and our desire to live them. Those who do not follow Jesus will not …
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A Christian Funeral is missional. Funerals are a part of the the church’s existence, a time of thanksgiving, of consolation, a time when the people of God draw together, and a time when the people of God draw comfort from the closeness and promises of God. Funerals also experience sorrow drawing down hope, which in …
The end of earthly life and funerals are not alien territory for the Christian. These circumstance involve distinctive experiences of suffering, loss and separation, and Christian funerals acknowledge and minister to all of these. However Christianity embraces a reality that we are all dying. We have died and risen again in spiritual union with Jesus, …
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