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What should be the focus of a Christian funeral?



    
    

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Shea S. Michael Houdmann Supporter Got Questions Ministries
There should be a vast difference between a Christian funeral and that of a non-believer. It is the difference between light and darkness, joy and sorrow, hope and despair, heaven and hell. A Chris...

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Stringio Kathy Brundidge Supporter church of Christ
In Matthew 8:21-22, a disciple of Jesus asked to follow Him, but he wanted to bury his late father first. Jesus said, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead, verse 22. What He meant was, Don't worry about your father. You come and follow me now, let the spiritually dead bury the physically dead. The focus of a funeral is not the dead person in the casket, but the living. The living need to know how to be saved, so that they can be rewarded, like the dead person has been rewarded.

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