Don’t forget: Next week is our monthly community night where our life groups gather together over a meal or activity! Please spend some time as a group deciding what you want to do. 

Please pray about who God wants you to invite, and listen to the Holy Spirit for an opportunity to invite them in the next few days.

Discussion Questions

  1. Application follow-up: Last week we talked about sacrifice and sacrificially loving others as Christians. Did you try practicing this in a new way this week? How did it go?
  2. What is the biggest positive surprise you've ever experienced? Who surprised you and what made it good?
  3. The disciples had lost hope, even though Jesus directly told them three times he would rise from the dead. Why do you think they had so much unbelief?
  4. Why do you think so many people fail to realize there is a God in heaven that created them and loves them, and how should we approach such people as Christians? 

READ MARK 16:1-8, THEN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW

  1. What does this passage tell me about God and about people?
  2. If I believe today's teaching is from God and that He loved me so much He sent Jesus to die for me, what is the appropriate way to respond in my everyday life?
  3. Who can I talk to more about this or share this with?

Spend time sharing prayer requests as a group, and close your time in prayer together.

Scripture

Mark 16:1-8 (NIV): When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body. Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb and they asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?” But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.’” Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.