Welcome to Sunday Fuel! This series of questions is designed to assist your personal reflection and fellowship with others about the sermon from this past Sunday.
Go to This Sunday’s Sermon start at 29:34
1. Life is hard here on earth. What is a loss, grief, or fear that you are experiencing now? What are you struggling with? Where do you long for peace and rest? In what areas are you searching for Christ through the “right” answers but still fail to see Him?
2. In the absence of Christ, what are some ways that you are trying to find peace or make sense of your life? How do you search for some version or measure of peace? When you cannot see Christ, what worldly substitutes do you look to instead? As Mary would settle for the dead body of Christ, what are the “dead bodies” you have settled for?
3. How would you describe the Jesus you are looking for? Honestly evaluate: Is He your greatest treasure—or has some other treasure taken His place?
4. Take some time to meditate on how Christ has provided for you all that you most truly need, even if He seems elusive or fails to provide what you need for your hardships today.
- Consider how on Good Friday, He has rescued you, suffering hell for us and taking the penalty for sin we deserve. He suffered hell on Good Friday so we can experience heaven.
- Consider how Resurrection Sunday has implications for the eternal: it demonstrates that His sacrifice on the cross accomplished its desired purpose. Sin and death no longer have power over Him—nor does it have power over those who put their trust in Him.
- Consider also the resurrection’s implications for the everyday: find comfort in the fact that even suffering has a purpose and though we may not understand it, nothing will be lost in God’s plan. He will bring meaning to it all.
5. With these truths in mind, even if you cannot see how, will you respond in faith, believing that the God who takes the worst day in history and turn it into the greatest blessings for us will also help shine light into your dark season? Ask Him for that faith to see the light of Christ in the midst of the darkness of our lives.
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