You think you have problems at your church?

double post...

That's hard to say, Thomas: It would be pretty hard to enforce respect for either building or denomination with "rascals".

My question was: Why did the family of the dead (someone among them must have been SDA)think that burying a unsaved ( or nominal?) member of the family in an SDA setting would make any difference to him? Is this a case of a funeral service for the living? If so, and they knew their son was a rascal, why announce it to his rascal friends, knowing that Jamacian custom produces rowdy funerals?

Perhaps razoren can explain things for us, as this is his conference.

I can?

Jamacia is 100% different from the Bahamas (were I live). For example..there have been close to 800 murders in Jam since the begining of the year. There is high amount of violence, so I can understand that the church would want to be cautious and protect those people attending while at the same time maintaining a athmosphere of decency.

Then again...those 'rascals' need to hear "the wages of sin is death" and that their sins will destroy them unless they seek the Saviour. That funeral may be the last chance many of them have to hear a verbal call to repent.

Its not a easy situation...one that I am simpathic to.

--Ren

Maybe the intentions are good but they should really be more careful about how they make it sound in their press realease, it comes off horrible. I mean, the SDA church is the fastest growing denomination apparently, we don't want to stunt its growth by sacring people off by accident =P