Matt Zainea Rockford Campus July 2, 2023
The Resurrection
SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION GUIDE
REMINDERS
July 19 – Group Leader Refresh at Trent & Brittany Heaton’s House
TOGETHER IN LIFE
Have you ever been stung by a bee? If so, what do you remember about it?
TOGETHER IN THE WORD
THIS WEEK’S KEY PASSAGE: 1 Corinthians 15:1-58
Note: We encourage you to read the entire text together as a group out loud.
QUESTIONS
- When thinking over the last year of your life, what are some of the stings you’ve have in life and what has been the fall out?
- Betrayal?
- Deceit or lies?
- Divorce, broken marriages?
- Relational pain?
- Financial hardship?
- Death of a loved one?
- When did the reality of the resurrection of Christ first impact you?
- What excites you the most about the resurrection?
- According to 1 Corinthians 15:1-8, what are the key elements of the Gospel?
- Do you have confidence that your faith is ground in verifiable facts? Why or Why not?
- If the Resurrection isn’t real…
- What do you think the world would be like right now if the Resurrection never happened?
- What would your life be like right now if you never believed in the Resurrection?
- If the Resurrection is real…
- How is your life different because the Resurrection is real?
- How are you changing and growing because of the truth of the Resurrection?
- Have you ever imagined what it will be like to have a new resurrected body that will never know pain, sorrow death or decay?
- What part of your “old flesh” are you most looking forward to not having to deal with anymore?
- How often does the fear of death plague you, either fear of losing your own life or one of your loved ones?
- How do you think the truth of the Resurrection could change how you view the stings of life?
- Is there someone in your life who doesn’t know the truth of the Gospel that you can share it with this week?
TOGETHER IN PRAYER
Pray this passage together as a group:
Romans 8:31–34 “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.”
37-39 “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
