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what'd come for you A sermon on St. Paul's rousing conclusion to 1 Corinthians : One of the first lessons they teach you in journalism school is how to write an obituary . You heard that right, an obituary . And while that may be surprising , it actually makes a lot of sense. After all, a traditional obituary is, if nothing else, just straight -ahead reporting. In those old print obituaries, only the facts that were published. The conventional obituary is limited to information such as the person’s name, age, and this is important , their cause of death . Why, I can still remember blessed Rose Kodet shouting, “The person did NOT pass away! They did not go on their reward ! No, they died .” To be a good reporter, insisted Rose, you had to know how to tell the plain truth. I doubt that was my first lesson in truth -telling, but it was the one that stuck. And as I’ve served as a pastor, I’ve always thought we , as the church , ought to be able to be at least as hones