Hello 👋 Mr preacher, sermons during burials in Africa in this big 2025? Please let's evolve.
My thoughts on sermons during burials in Africa. This has got nothing to do with wokeness.
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The preaching /sermon session during burials in Africa is a very unnecessary endeavor. It's ridiculous at this point imo. That's one practice that the next generation should discard completely in let's say 50 years or so. It beats my common logic the importance of it coz if I want to know more about Jesus I'll go to a church and not a burial. It actually feels like a chore . Is it designed on purpose to break the monotony of that current somber mood? What's the intention of that session? What is it designed to achieve? If the deceased was a staunch Christian the business of the presiding preacher should end at prayers only. Am tempted to assume that specific sermon is meant to gaslight/manipulate/instill fear to those left behind to see if they'll give their lives to jesus. Does that gospel still work? That one of frightening/threatening people with hell fire 🔥 and suffering for eternity? Like kambas and kikuyus casually put it "mwaki wa tene na tene"! Also eulogies in big 2025? Com'n fellow African . A small quiet send off attended by close relatives and friends only should be the norm. But no let's hold the biggest most expensive burial in this side of Sahara, with pomp and mbwembwe. Let's do an online fundraising to feed hundreds of multitudes. you'd even be surprised we are now in a competition of which family outdid the rest in giving their departed one the most dignified send off of all time. And what shocks me about this African culture that's basically deluded with hypocrisy is how we are neglecting our very own during their last days on this universe, forgetting them in their hour of dire need in totality only to show up immediately they pass away when they nolonger need us. A relative will be down with a chronic terminal illness, they will need palliative care and attention but we will be so unavailable because we are busy with our daily hustle and bustle, grinding hard every single day with no time to spare in town but we will magically find time and resources to spare when they're long dead. What for? Those employers that can't give you an off day to rush and see your loved ones where do they get the audacity to release you when that person is dead? Does it come off as if we are valuing the death more than the life? That business that we can't close when they are sick, that money we don't have when they are chronically ill where do we magically get it from to traverse miles, cross rivers and bridges to go bury them? Ai man Africa is one glorified ghetto immersed in hypocrisy and mediocrity. Can we stop doing that please 🙏. Can we develop a culture of showing up to people when they need us please. They need us when they are alive. They need us when they can see and feel the love we profess to them when they're silent in those coffins. Let's show our loved ones that strong love and affection when they are breathing. Coz the minute they breath their last they nolonger care, they nolonger need it. Let's give them those fancy fantastic rose flowers when they can still smell them and smile at us with appreciation.
Lastly please, let's avoid lying during that eulogy session. We are living badly with people. We have total disregard of people while they are still breathing and kicking. You can't see eye to eye with your brother or sister or neighbor but you want to lie to us during their burial that you loved each other and you lived well with them? I'm sure even Satan herself doesn't appreciate that. Do good, Change or perish.
Na pastors wanalipwa kuzika mtu these days . shuwaly maina ni udinyi upi huo?
Ai man just blow the Damn trumpet atp. The rupture is long overdue.
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