Pastor Michael Hartwig of Valparaiso, Indiana, tells about visiting a man in a nursing home who had been instrumental in starting the major industry in town. When he died, Pastor Hartwig was asked to do the funeral service. Hartwig was nervous, because he knew their church would be packed with dignitaries.

The service went well, and on the way to the cemetery he began to turn in his Bible to the passage he was to read at the grave side. While he was turning to I Corinthians 15, the funeral director interrupted him and asked him a question. Pastor Hartwig could tell the funeral…