SARDIS: THE WALKING DEAD (5 OF 7)
Scripture: Revelation 3:1-6
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Title: Sardis: The Walking Dead (5 of 7)
Series: This Is Your Captain Speaking
Text: Revelation 3:1-6
Author: James Merritt
Introduction
1. Though It Happened Decades Ago, It Is Still
One of if Not Perhaps the Most Gut-Wrenching
Thing I’ve Ever Gone Through as a Pastor. I Was
Still in Seminary Getting My PhD and I Was
Pastoring My Second Church, a Small Country
Church. We Had a Wonderful Family in That
Church With Beautiful Children. The Dad Was A
Deacon. The Mom Played Both the Piano and The
Organ. They Both Became Very Close to Me And
Teresa.
2. The Dad Was Driving Home One Afternoon
With Two of His Kids in the Backseat. It Had Been
Raining Very Hard and a Teenager Hydroplaned
And Came Into Their Lane. All the Dad Could Do
Was to Scream for the Kids to Get Down. The
Little Girl Did, but the Little Boy Instead Raised Up
To See What Was Going On. When They Hit Head-on
The Front of His Head Hit the Back Rest of The
Front Seat and Crushed His Skull. The Dad Had A
Broken Hip and Some Other Injuries and the Girl
Was Unhurt. They Were Rushed to the Hospital
And This Precious Beautiful Little Eight Year Old
Boy Was Put on a Ventilator to Keep His Heart
Beating, but There Were No Detectable Brain
Waves. He Was Pronounced Braindead.
3. Immediately When I Found Out the News I
Went Up, Visited With the Family, and Prayed With
Them. The Next Day I Got a Call Saying That the Boy
Was Indeed Dead. He Needed to Be Taken off The
Machine, but Understandably the Mother Did Not
Want That to Happen, Because in Her Heart And
Mind He Was Still Alive and He Could Still Live. I
Was Asked to Go Up and Speak to This Precious
Mom and to Persuade Her to Do the Unthinkable.
4. To This Day, It Was One of the Most Difficult
Conversations I’ve Ever Had in My Life. Even
Though the Boy’s Chest Was Moving up and Down,
And the Heart Was Continuing to Beat, From An
Outward Appearance It Might Look ...
Series: This Is Your Captain Speaking
Text: Revelation 3:1-6
Author: James Merritt
Introduction
1. Though It Happened Decades Ago, It Is Still
One of if Not Perhaps the Most Gut-Wrenching
Thing I’ve Ever Gone Through as a Pastor. I Was
Still in Seminary Getting My PhD and I Was
Pastoring My Second Church, a Small Country
Church. We Had a Wonderful Family in That
Church With Beautiful Children. The Dad Was A
Deacon. The Mom Played Both the Piano and The
Organ. They Both Became Very Close to Me And
Teresa.
2. The Dad Was Driving Home One Afternoon
With Two of His Kids in the Backseat. It Had Been
Raining Very Hard and a Teenager Hydroplaned
And Came Into Their Lane. All the Dad Could Do
Was to Scream for the Kids to Get Down. The
Little Girl Did, but the Little Boy Instead Raised Up
To See What Was Going On. When They Hit Head-on
The Front of His Head Hit the Back Rest of The
Front Seat and Crushed His Skull. The Dad Had A
Broken Hip and Some Other Injuries and the Girl
Was Unhurt. They Were Rushed to the Hospital
And This Precious Beautiful Little Eight Year Old
Boy Was Put on a Ventilator to Keep His Heart
Beating, but There Were No Detectable Brain
Waves. He Was Pronounced Braindead.
3. Immediately When I Found Out the News I
Went Up, Visited With the Family, and Prayed With
Them. The Next Day I Got a Call Saying That the Boy
Was Indeed Dead. He Needed to Be Taken off The
Machine, but Understandably the Mother Did Not
Want That to Happen, Because in Her Heart And
Mind He Was Still Alive and He Could Still Live. I
Was Asked to Go Up and Speak to This Precious
Mom and to Persuade Her to Do the Unthinkable.
4. To This Day, It Was One of the Most Difficult
Conversations I’ve Ever Had in My Life. Even
Though the Boy’s Chest Was Moving up and Down,
And the Heart Was Continuing to Beat, From An
Outward Appearance It Might Look ...
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