AS YOU MEET WITH EACH OTHER THIS WEEK, CONSIDER THESE QUESTIONS:
This Sunday Basil spoke on how the bodily resurrection of Jesus changes everything. He reminded us that our lives and the very reality in which we live are completely transformed by The Gospel truth that He is Risen!
1. Why is the whole Christian faith reliant on the real bodily resurrection of Christ?
2. Basil shared with us a wonderful practice of imagining the Kingdom of God in its fulfilment as the ideal, and asking God by His Spirit to allow us to bring that into the brokenness of the here and now. Basil gave an example from his own life, of choosing to treat the students he works with, with dignity and love rather than seeking to use them in the ways he had seen others do. What areas of your life might God be calling you to approach differently? In what spaces of brokenness might God be calling you to be an instrument of His restorative love and peace?
3. N.T. Wright in his book “Surprised By Hope” addresses three key areas that the resurrection life will work out through us as His people: Justice, Beauty and Evangelism. How do these three come to fruition in The Kingdom of God? How can we seek and embody them in the spaces in which God has placed us? Which of these three stands out to you? Why?
4. How is creating something beautiful a part of the resurrection life working through us? How might God be calling you to create beauty?