Being prepared for life's expected conclusion and helping those you love

Thomas L Morris

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Being prepared for life's expected conclusion and helping those you love

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Thomas L Morris. Being Prepared for Life's Expected Conclusion and Helping Those You Love. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School of Trinity International University. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/a28f0f15-d1f0-4083-9007-2649130043f0.

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T. L. Morris. Being prepared for life's expected conclusion and helping those you love. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/a28f0f15-d1f0-4083-9007-2649130043f0

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Thomas L Morris. Being Prepared for Life's Expected Conclusion and Helping Those You Love. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School of Trinity International University. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/a28f0f15-d1f0-4083-9007-2649130043f0.

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Thomas L Morris

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Abstract

The purpose of this project is to equip adults of the local church with means by which to communicate the Christian message to children and grandchildren in Our Savior's Community Church (a Missouri Synod Lutheran Church in Palm Springs, California). I, though, am ordained in the Evangelical Free Church. Much of the American church dwells in a culture that does not seek to deal squarely with death. The irony is that in this death-denying culture people at one moment deny death, and at the same time 'experience more deaths' through television, movies, and video games (in some of the new video games people seek to kill people at every turn) than any civilization in human history. We seek death in our entertainment, while at the same time we fear death's invasion into our lives. Life forces us to deal with the very thing we dread--death. We seek to place death in the realm of fiction until it comes in our door. In life, death controls the real story line. The American church rarely focuses on death. The church primarily deals with the subject of death at the time of death--the funeral. After the funeral we seek to return to normal life as quickly as possible, though death has removed normalcy forever for the family and friends of the deceased. The result is that most American Christians are ill prepared to face life's expected conclusion--either theirs, or their loved ones. The goal of my project is to help local churches present a Christian theology of death; to provide practical helps in discussing these issues in the church; and to teach church people to cope with death, dying, and grief from the Scriptures (this will be done in four seminars). The four seminars were presented to a local church and evaluated.

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