In Christ Alone

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

An Outline of One of Bonny's Sermons for Wake/Funeral Services

When Bonny was on earth, he conducted many wake and funeral services while serving as a pastor at Community of Praise Baptist Church. Last week I conducted a wake service for a church member using one of Bonny's scripts.
Here is one of Bonny's sermon outlines which I found in one of his notebooks. He knew there was a time for everything. Quoting Ecclesiastes 3:2 He said there was "a time to be born and a time ot die, a time to plant and a time to uproot." He also knew the certainty of death, Heb. 9:27, "Just as man is destined to die once,...." His certainty was reflected by a statement he often made in the wake/funeral services he conducted, "Death is no respector of any man or woman or child." To the question "What happens to us when we die?", he was very sure that the temporal bodies, the perishable will be clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality 1 Cor 15:50-55.
It has been 8 months now since he has been clothed with the imperishable and is experiencing eternal joy and immortality. Though there is not time frame in Heaven, he is remembered every minute, every hour, every day, every week and month here on earth because he has left a tremendous legacy in my life. To God be the glory!