Lost opportunity to help grieving people in funeral sermon.

What is it about?

Funeral is to comfort grieving people, but according to our research this goal is not reached and this is not denominationally conditioned. We need to look for new approach.

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Why is it important?

Prof. Jarab informed me, that in Prague is growing number of funerals without ceremony. The family simply meets in restaurant around the table with candle, because the ceremony lost the meaning for them. We need look for meaning in funeral and this can mean, that we need to understand public grieving at funeral as a occasion for public comfort. This is especially true at the Christian funeral, where the biblical message needs to be joined to the deceased and the family. Without the comfort of grieving, the funeral sermon appears to be a religious speech without deeper meaning. That can be from the perspective of participants true also by sermons with very good work with biblical text.

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