Don Pearson // Northview Campus // March 15, 2026

SERMON DISCUSSION GUIDE

THIS WEEK’S KEY PASSAGE: Luke 23:26-49

REMINDERS

Sojourner – A Modern Easter Drama

A modern young traveler embarks on a pilgrimage through unfamiliar territory. What is the mysterious future destination? Amid adventure, humor, and retro fun–what crises lie in the path? Is it wise to engage with the presence of a fellow sojourner?

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TOGETHER IN LIFE

This Easter season, we’re encouraging everyone to think of some friends, co-workers, neighbors, teammates, workout buddies or anyone you know to be invitational. Invite to come to church, to the Easter drama, and especially into relationship with Jesus.

As you consider being invitational: Share with your group…

• What was an experience you’ve had of being invited to something unfamiliar or new and you replied YES!
• What was it like? Were you nervous, excited, confused? Did you hesitate? Or were you “sold” right away?
• What made the invitation something that made you want to say YES to?
• Does inviting someone to join you for something come naturally? Or is it a challenge? Why do you think that is so?

TOGETHER IN THE WORD

Read Luke 23:26-49

KEY QUESTION:  How have we been one-dimensional in our beliefs?

QUESTIONS

• Which of the three scoffers do you think you would have been: the religious elite, the soldiers, or the criminals?
• All three groups thought that the only way for Jesus to prove he is God was to come down from the cross. What did this one-dimensional thinking get them?
• When have you been a one-dimensional thinker?
• Jesus knew that he stayed on the cross to save the world. Have you ever thought about what Jesus was thinking as he listened to the scoffers? How was his perspective different than theirs?
• The “nails” that held Jesus to the cross can also hold us onto dangerous, narrow, unforgiving ways of living. What are the “nails” that hold you?
• Don played a video of Alistair Begg’s “Man on the Middle Cross” sermon. How does his statement “The man on the middle cross said I can come” make you think about your own salvation, when you were saved, and what it means?
• How will you live differently this week knowing that love, not nails, held Jesus on the cross?

TOGETHER IN PRAYER & ACTION

• Spend time thanking Jesus for staying on that cross and thus providing us salvation.
• What “nails” will you work on pulling out of your life?
• How can you focus better on Jesus’s sacrifice during this Easter season?