I'm a member of a Missouri Synod Lutheran Church of about 2500 members, including a K-8 school. Our school principal had been a highly respected icon in the church and school for 20 years, both as a teacher and then as the principal.
About eight years ago, he committed suicide after charges of se--al misconduct were leveled against him by a couple of former students. The misconduct apparently occured some 20 years prior. The charges themselves were shaky, and the statute of limitations had long expired, but for whatever reason he chose to take his own life rather that face the ordeal.
At the time we had a bone-headed head pastor we were already trying to get rid or, and this pastor refused to perform a funeral service for someone who had committed suicide. So the service was done jointly by two professors from our LCMS University across the street, who are both ordained ministers in their own right. The sermon was a masterpiece, and I later stated that opinion to the prof who delivered it. The main theme was, if the Lord forgives all our sins, will He not also forgive a final sin of suicide?
As far as anyone could tell, that was the largest funeral in the 125 year history of the church. Estimates were at 1400.
(We finally got rid of the pastor who refused to do the service. Even the President of the Nebraska District of the LCMS told him to his face it was time to move on. I was Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the time, and when word came out that he was leaving, the gal who chaired the Finance Board and I "high-fived" in the parking lot next to the church. Kalispel, Montana was the unlucky recipient when he left.)
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