Lucy Cheng worships at Wesley Methodist Church and teaches in their BeTween ministry.
From earth to
A
eternity
s I write this, my elderly mother is
What is on the Other Side
in hospital again. There are purple
In the story of Lazarus (Jn 11:1-44), Jesus
bruises on the back of her hands and crook
raised him to life after he had already
of her elbows, where needles and cannulas
been entombed for four days. By then,
attempted to seek a viable vein. Once more,
according to his sister Martha, Lazarus'
I was confronted by my own mortality.
body was already "stinking". Emphatically dead, yet at Jesus' command, Lazarus
Where do we go when we die, what is
walked out of the tomb, incomprehensibly
eternity, is there an afterlife, where are the
whole, dressed in his burial clothes. If he
locations of (the unseen) heaven and hell
had some exciting tale about the afterlife,
in the (seen) universe? Different religions
it is not recorded in the Bible.
propound different answers. 16 Methodist Message June 2023