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Death will strike your congregation. Are you ready? Are they? Death has become a four-letter word. Whereas in previous generations, the practice of memento mori (“remember death”) was embedded in family life, people today have found ways to distance themselves from death. As Western culture becomes increasingly more secular, the Christian understanding of death and the funeral appear more and...

Pastors have a responsibility to help their people recover the imagination and the language of Christian eschatology for two reasons. First, if the Christian gospel does not convert their imagination, it will be converted by the wider culture. Second, if that happens, evangelization fails. We need to teach our people eschatology as part and parcel of their and our discipleship and their and our mission. We need to stoke in their hearts a longing for and an expectation of the coming of Christ—who
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