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Session Description
Goals:
To encourage each of you to set up a council discussion, adult education sessions about this topic (note: to change, even if to deepen, our practices in the context of the volatile emotions surrounding death is not likely, and may be very counter-productive),
To encourage each of you to select the very best books for your persona and church libraries (one of the best ways to deepen practice is to make the best resources the most available),
To plant the seeds of some constructive questions that can ferment a bit in each of our lives over the next several motnhs.
To gently encourage our reclamation of a) funeral in church, b) use of baptismal palls—or other symbolic acts of baptismal identity, including Rom 6:3-5, c) funeral Lord's Supper, d) public committal services, e) retitling funerals as "A Service of Witness to the Resurrection."
Conference Title
2008 Calvin Symposium on Worship
Event Date
1-25-2008
Event Type
Workshop/Seminar
Type (recording/text)
Recording
Subject Area
Worship
Keywords:
funeral, outline, resources
Recommended Citation
Witvliet, John D., "Reclaiming Funerals as Christian Worship" (2008). Symposium on Worship Archive. 28.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/uni-cicw-symposium/2008/allitems/28
A handout which includes a resources list for the workshop.
Reclaiming Funerals as Christian Worship
Goals:
To encourage each of you to set up a council discussion, adult education sessions about this topic (note: to change, even if to deepen, our practices in the context of the volatile emotions surrounding death is not likely, and may be very counter-productive),
To encourage each of you to select the very best books for your persona and church libraries (one of the best ways to deepen practice is to make the best resources the most available),
To plant the seeds of some constructive questions that can ferment a bit in each of our lives over the next several motnhs.
To gently encourage our reclamation of a) funeral in church, b) use of baptismal palls—or other symbolic acts of baptismal identity, including Rom 6:3-5, c) funeral Lord's Supper, d) public committal services, e) retitling funerals as "A Service of Witness to the Resurrection."