Now it's not that people are standing up in Sunday School classes or in many pulpits around the land or in groups of Christians as they meet in various places, saying there is no resurrection of the dead. Do we not give evidence from the kind of thought patterns that we have, the kind of ways in which we are able to express ourselves to the world that perhaps there is no resurrection of the dead because we have not really allowed the power of the resurrection to be at work in our lives. We have denied the power of the resurrection. We have denied the reality of the resurrection in our own lives. Resurrection means transformation.
Resurrection means that the old has passed away and that the new has come.
Or in some way do we have to admit that we are saying there is no resurrection of the dead because of the way in which we live. Our faith is futile. Our living is futile. We go around living as if we are defeated rather than as if we have victory. One of the ways in which we do affirm the resurrection of the dead, and I have found this to be true in every church situation that I've been in, is that when it comes to the time of the death of one of our loved ones, we always give affirmation to the resurrection of the dead.