{"id":5582,"date":"2019-09-30T04:10:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/facing-the-inevitable\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:10:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:55","slug":"facing-the-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/facing-the-inevitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing the Inevitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Selness enrolled in a graduate program on counseling.  One assignment was to fill out a 20-page \u201cPersonal Death Awareness\u201d form.  Here are some of the questions:<\/p>\n<p> \u2666  How old do you think you will be when you die?<br \/>\n \u2666  What do you expect to die from?<br \/>\n \u2666  If you had your choice, what would you die of?<br \/>\n \u2666  Which frightens you more: death, or dying?<br \/>\n \u2666  Have you ever thought about committing suicide?<\/p>\n<p>It got him to thinking &#8211; what is the appropriate perspective for a Christian to have about death?  Is it a good thing, or a bad thing?<\/p>\n<p>All people need to prepare themselves for death.<\/p>\n<p>  1. Common attitudes toward death.<br \/>\n  2. The biblical perspective.<br \/>\n       a. Death is an enemy.  It is not natural.<br \/>\n       b. It is appropriate to hate death.<br \/>\n       c. Jesus hated death and destroyed it.<br \/>\n  3. Death is a beginning.<br \/>\n  4. Preparing for death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Selness enrolled in a graduate program on counseling. One assignment was to fill out a 20-page \u201cPersonal Death Awareness\u201d form. Here are some of the questions: \u2666 How old do you think you will be when you die? \u2666 What do you expect to die from? \u2666 If you had your choice, what would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93,312,577,316,2070],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}