Images of Christ on the Cross

For those of you who have been using the devotional booklet, what stood out to you from the passages, the art, the written reflections or your own response? Consider reading out one or more of the passages and reflections and engaging with this as a group.

Read Luke 24:1-35

• What stands out to you in this passage? What is hard to understand? What challenges or encourages you?

Throughout this passage, the disciples are reminded over and over that Jesus told them this would happen, or the Scriptures contained this story.

• What are some of the truths of the Gospel that you struggle to remember or let influence your life?
• What things in the world around you tend to push this from your mind or dissuade you from what you are trying to hold onto?

One of the things that the disciples struggled to comprehend was that Jesus wasn’t just present as a personality [ghost?] but actually solidly alive and physically functioning – inviting touch, eating and drinking.

• Does your thinking about what happens after you die tend more towards heavenly, spiritual experiences, or toward embodied lives on earth – in bodies that never sicken, weaken or die?
• What difference might that expectation make to how you live and deal with the physical world, including your own body?
• Jesus being fully alive again (but better) means that impossible has been turned on its head. What might the resurrection give you power to hope for again?