The Beautiful Upset: WK 6 - GROUP GUIDE
The Victory We Couldn’t Imagine
INTRODUCTION
The following is a guide to help facilitate discussion between you and the person you’re studying with or with your Connect Group. Feel free to add, subtract, or change questions to fit the conversation, and pray for the Spirit to lead in all things.
OPENING QUESTION
What is something you used to believe that has changed or you no longer believe? Think as far back as childhood if needed. Did the change have no impact on you, some, or was it transformative in some way?
HEAD
HEART
HANDS
This week, read all the accounts of Jesus’ trial, death, and resurrection (Matthew 27-28, Luke 23-24, Mark 15-16, John 19-20). Right out your reflections, insights, and how you feel the Spirit moving in your heart. Again, if you haven’t before committed your life to Jesus in the waters of baptism, what’s stopping you from doing it now? If you have, what would it look like to renew your commitment to him this Easter. Also, who is someone in your circle of influence that you could pray for, that they would come to know the love of God and the gift of Jesus for them.
WORDS TO LIVE BY
16 For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.
John 3:16-17, NLT
INTRODUCTION
The following is a guide to help facilitate discussion between you and the person you’re studying with or with your Connect Group. Feel free to add, subtract, or change questions to fit the conversation, and pray for the Spirit to lead in all things.
OPENING QUESTION
What is something you used to believe that has changed or you no longer believe? Think as far back as childhood if needed. Did the change have no impact on you, some, or was it transformative in some way?
HEAD
- Read Mark 15:33-Mark 15:8, together and share any wisdom, insights, or thoughts that come to you from the reading.
- Why do you think darkness fell over the land while Jesus hung on the cross?
- Read Psalm 22, where Jesus’ quote in verse 34 comes from. What do you think that Psalm is ultimately about?
- What do you think the significance is of the curtain in the temple, the very curtain that separated people from the presence of God, was torn? And not just torn, torn from top to bottom?
- What was it about the way Jesus died that made the centurion say, “This man truly was the Son of God!”
- Why do you think Jesus died so quickly? The Romans were experts at making a death like this last, so what happened?
- Do you think the women believed the angels when they said that Jesus was alive? Remember, nothing like this had ever been heard of before.
- Though Mark’s account doesn’t have Jesus reuniting with the women and the disciples, the other gospels do. What do you think it was like for them that first time they saw Jesus, especially after losing him just days before?
HEART
- Most credible historians believe that Jesus of Nazareth actually lived, and that he was put to death by the Romans on a cross. The question is, what happened next. What do you believe and why?
HANDS
This week, read all the accounts of Jesus’ trial, death, and resurrection (Matthew 27-28, Luke 23-24, Mark 15-16, John 19-20). Right out your reflections, insights, and how you feel the Spirit moving in your heart. Again, if you haven’t before committed your life to Jesus in the waters of baptism, what’s stopping you from doing it now? If you have, what would it look like to renew your commitment to him this Easter. Also, who is someone in your circle of influence that you could pray for, that they would come to know the love of God and the gift of Jesus for them.
WORDS TO LIVE BY
16 For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.
John 3:16-17, NLT
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