Emphasis Preaching Journal

Death had visited their home. The pastor made a visit to the family to help them with the funeral arrangements and to minister to them during their time of need. He found the widow and her two sons and daughter. The couple had been married for 54 years. The children were all married with children of their own. Not long after arriving at the family home, one of the family members said to him, "How should we act?" In the midst of their terrible sense of loss and grief, they felt the need for someone to tell them how to act. They didn't trust themselves to act the way they felt.