Death

Recently in my ethics course at Asbury Theological Seminary we discussed death. This statement was on one of the slides in the class;

The understanding of death always implies 

something about the understanding of life 

and the understanding of life always 

implies something about the telos of the

functional moral anthropology.

In summarization of the above quote, the way death is viewed affects the way that one views life. 

Without a doubt, death is something that needs to be talked about in a proper setting and in a proper way to be understood through the lenses of the Christian faith. The early Church represented change of the view of death that the world vitally needed. Christians no longer need to fear death, it is something that was once feared by all, but ever since the resurrection of Christ Christians have thought of death as just another event in the life of a person. Death went from the ultimate fear and end, to something that can be crushed under the heel of the believer and laughed at. 

When I was a youth pastor I once had a youth ask me about death.It was a pretty general question that basically was; How do we as Christians deal with death? Imagine when you were in middle school or high school, death was something that was quite foreign, at least it was for me. Death is something that has to be taught to youth in a Christian context. 

You are the leaders of the Church, you are the people that youth look up to for answers. Study the scripture and the Early Church and learn about death in a Christian context so that you can teach the youth. Otherwise they will come up with their own answers, and they will more than likely be misguided. 

Be the leader that God calls you to be.

Alex Gebert

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