Have you curated your funeral playlist yet?  If not, let me encourage you take some time to look at what the scripture says about life after death – both for the believer and the unbeliever – so that every part of our funeral service can bear witness to the goodness of our God and the truth of the gospel.  But what does the Bible say?

While the Bible speaks about life in the New Heavens and the New Earth, very little description is given to the time between death and the resurrection and return of Christ.   Theologians refer to this time as the Intermediate State.   Some hold this is a time of unconscious soul sleep, others that it is a dreary dream world of souls in limbo.  Still others view this as a time of probation with a second chance for those that either did not hear the gospel or rejected it in this life.   But the Bible soundly refutes all these ideas and gives us a much better picture of a life absent from the body, but present with the Lord.  Listen to “In-Between” as we examine 2 Corinthians 5:1-9 and consider life after death.