Horrendous funeral story

Dan Dick shares a story of a funeral he once attended.

I attended a funeral for a teenager a number of year’s ago — literally hundreds of young people turned out to say goodbye to their friend, and to hear some word of grace and comfort in a time of tragedy.  A lovely young woman, coming home from a pre-graduation party where alcohol was served, ran off the road and flipped her car.  I still get furiously angry when I remember that the pastor officiating at the funeral chose as his text, “the wages of sin is death.”  He launched into an insensitive and theologically questionable diatribe on making sure that we live within the bounds of what we know God demands, not tempting God’s wrath, and seeking in all ways to meet with God’s approval.  He finished with what I consider to be one of the most blatant and ignorant blasphemies of our faith — explaining to the young audience that we cannot question God’s decisions, but that we only need accept that death is “God’s will.”