Discussion questions for Life Groups based on the Sunday sermon.
(Updated weekly)
April 20, 2025
*** This guide intentionally has more questions than your group could reasonably discuss in one meeting. Feel free to pick and choose questions that best encourage, challenge, and instruct your particular participants.
Read Luke 24:1-12
1. Why is it important to know that Jesus truly is the Son of God? How do we address those who believe He was nothing but a good teacher or just a prophet?
2. What does Romans 5:1 say about the finished work of Christ on the cross? What does it mean to have “peace with God”. How would you explain justification to someone who does not understand it? How would you explain it to your children?
3. Colossians 1:27 describes a great and glorious mystery, which is “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” How does this future and guaranteed hope help us in our present life? Since we have such a hope, how then should we live in preparation for it?
4. Rob discussed how Jesus’s promises (and those of the whole Word) are true. Is there a particular promise of Scripture that comforts and encourages you in difficult times? Would you be willing to share more about that?
5. How does your family celebrate the resurrection of our Lord?
6. Why is the resurrection so important to everything that we believe? Read I Cor. 15:13-17 again. How does this future hope of our resurrection help and comfort us in times of worry, trial, and at times of grief?
7. II Peter 1:1 says something very specific and significant about Jesus. How does this truth make us different from other religions? Why is this so important to understand and believe that Jesus is “God” and our “Savior”. Does this make us look at the cross differently?
8. Has the magnificent reality of the resurrection grown stale in your life?
9. Pliny wrote about Christians – describing their “pig-headed obstinacy.” Do you consider that a complement? Is there anything Christians should be obstinate about?
10. We constantly need to be reminded of the hope that we have, because of Jesus. That hope is something that should set us apart from the rest of the world. What does that look like? What else makes us different?
