The Dawn Treader

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

God continues to impress the concept of union life upon my mind.  Paul wrote extensively on union life in Romans and modeled it in his epistles.  Another New Testament writer, John, captures the notion of being united with Christ with some dynamic word pictures.

How should a Christian view one's own death?  Fear it?  Be resigned to it?  Defy it?

No.  Paul (in Phillipians) models that one who is in union life with Christ actually ought to embrace the thought of it.  (Note: Paul was not endorsing suicide as some have misinterpreted the text in Phil 1:22-26.)

"For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."

Pastor Dunnington preached an entire sermon on that one verse.  Correction.  On the first half of that verse.