Should We Have Funerals In Our Churches?

To those of you that are in bereavement at this time, please accept my sincerest condolences.
First, lets be clear again. I’m not writing to offend anyone. I’m trying to get those of us, especially brought up in the ‘Apostolic’ community to look at how we’ve been doing things, and to examine whether or not it is God’s way or whether we’ve succumb to societal customs.
I took the time to do a little research in the bible pertaining to funerals. I could not find one scripture that suggested that they bring their bodies into the temple where they worship. I’ve always read about them burying their dead, in the ground, that’s it. Now I don’t know whether they sang a hymn or prayed over the dead, but I do know, the dead weren’t brought into the temple.
We are the church, the living, soul-filled saints. The church building is our place of worship. Do you agree that this should be a sacred place? A place where all types of people can come to be healed, delivered, blessed, comforted, exalted, and most importantly, Saved.
If our churches are places to worship, why then would we bring soul-less bodies into a sacred temple where we worship the living God?
I would even dare ask, wouldn’t bringing a soul-less body into the house of God, defiling the temple?
I think it’s worth talking about. I think we have been listening to today’s society and mimicking them so long that we have forgotten to come out from among them and be separate. We are supposed to be the examples in the world: yet, we seem to follow their customs more than they follow ours.
Let’s have this conversation guys. Lets discuss whether or not we should bring soul-less bodies into the House Of God.
Now, some of you may be thinking how insensitive it would be not to recognize the dead. Well, that’s why we are taught to give honor where honor is due to those persons while they are alive. You don’t need to bring a dead body inside the House of Worship for that. DO IT NOW!!!
Do it while they can hear you and feel honored, so that when they die, we can take them to the burial ground and properly bury them without all the Hollywood-Societal Grandeur of today’s funerals.
According to the NFDA (National Funeral Directors Association), the average funeral costs from 1960-2009, went from $708 - $6560, for one person. That’s ridiculous. But it’s not about burying the dead is it? It’s about putting on a fantastic funeral show; it’s about sensationalism. It’s allowing society to dictate how much you loved your loved one by how much money you put into burying them. Let’s not keep up with society, lets bury our dead respectfully as they did in the bible days, in the ground, at the burial site, and bless them and praise God they are going to be with our Father.
It’s past time we start being an example in this world. But, that’s just my opinion. What do you think?