Main points will
include the following:
1- Death is a
universal experience, yet our society tends to encourage us to avoid facing it
directly, leave it to professionals, and not allow for personal grief or
sufficient time to heal when we lose a loved one.
2- On the other hand,
modern Halloween glorifies the goulish pagan celebration of death and the
frightful images of "half-dead" beings.
3- Both Jesus and
Paul teach us to recognize that although our physical bodies are naturally
declining (wasting away) the more-real unseen world is close by and is eternal,
outside time and space.
4- So we need to take
time to be with persons approaching death, and we need to grieve and express
sorrow when people we love die, leaving this world, but take comfort from
the single source of real hope, Jesus our resurrected Lord.
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