FUNERAL FOR AN ADDICT
by Steve Jones
Funeral for an Addict
Steve Jones
Scripture: Selected Miscellaneous
CENTRAL IDEA: This funeral message is one that can be preached for a Christian who struggled with an addiction that ultimately claimed their life. The main points are as follows:
1) SHE WAS AN EXAMPLE OF THE TRIUMPH OF SAVING FAITH
2) SHE WAS AN EXAMPLE OF THE DANGERS OF ADDICTION
3) SHE WAS AN EXAMPLE OF SPIRITUAL WARFARE
4) SHE WAS AN EXAMPLE OF AMAZING GRACE
I. EXAMPLE OF THE TRIUMPH OF SAVING FAITH
Acts 17:27 ''God is not far from any one of us''
Her early life was not easy. She was fortunate and blessed to have a woman of faith in her mother, but that's where her advantages stopped. According to her journal, the biological father was an alcoholic. When she was 5-years-old he burned down the house killing her cat. She went to live with her grandparents. The father was court-ordered not to see the children, but he managed to get them after school one day and hold them hostage for several hours. She never got over the feelings of loneliness, anger and fear planted in her life at that young age.
And yet, she came to have saving faith in God - her loving father in heaven. You can't tell the measure of a man or a woman simply by where they are - but by what they had to overcome to get there. In spite of personal challenges and childhood trauma she responded to the Gospel. She believed, repented, professed Jesus as Lord and was baptized.
M. Scott Peck:
''An amazing fact: our patients are amazingly healthy mentally. Horrible traumas produce neurosis, but much less severe than should be expected in the ordinary course of things. We know why some people commit suicide. We don't know, within the ordinary limits of causality, why certain others don't. All we can say is that there is a force, the mechanics of which we do not fully understand, that seems to operate routinely in most people to protect and encourage their mental health even under the most adverse condit ...
Steve Jones
Scripture: Selected Miscellaneous
CENTRAL IDEA: This funeral message is one that can be preached for a Christian who struggled with an addiction that ultimately claimed their life. The main points are as follows:
1) SHE WAS AN EXAMPLE OF THE TRIUMPH OF SAVING FAITH
2) SHE WAS AN EXAMPLE OF THE DANGERS OF ADDICTION
3) SHE WAS AN EXAMPLE OF SPIRITUAL WARFARE
4) SHE WAS AN EXAMPLE OF AMAZING GRACE
I. EXAMPLE OF THE TRIUMPH OF SAVING FAITH
Acts 17:27 ''God is not far from any one of us''
Her early life was not easy. She was fortunate and blessed to have a woman of faith in her mother, but that's where her advantages stopped. According to her journal, the biological father was an alcoholic. When she was 5-years-old he burned down the house killing her cat. She went to live with her grandparents. The father was court-ordered not to see the children, but he managed to get them after school one day and hold them hostage for several hours. She never got over the feelings of loneliness, anger and fear planted in her life at that young age.
And yet, she came to have saving faith in God - her loving father in heaven. You can't tell the measure of a man or a woman simply by where they are - but by what they had to overcome to get there. In spite of personal challenges and childhood trauma she responded to the Gospel. She believed, repented, professed Jesus as Lord and was baptized.
M. Scott Peck:
''An amazing fact: our patients are amazingly healthy mentally. Horrible traumas produce neurosis, but much less severe than should be expected in the ordinary course of things. We know why some people commit suicide. We don't know, within the ordinary limits of causality, why certain others don't. All we can say is that there is a force, the mechanics of which we do not fully understand, that seems to operate routinely in most people to protect and encourage their mental health even under the most adverse condit ...
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