Study Questions - Jeff Pugh sermon

Discovery and Discussion Questions:

Overview Question: Read From 27.62-28.20. Note the whole passage is full of messengers being commissioned to bear message. Can you find the references to all of these?

1. Where did Jesus set up his post resurrection rendezvous with the eleven? Why?

2. What are the possible reasons why the disciples, the eleven, do not all worship the risen Christ freely where as the women did? (28.17 cf. 28.9)
Which reason do you like best?

3. Vs. 18.b Do you think our sorts of Christian really have sufficiently grasped who Jesus is? Can you think of ways we also ‘hesitate’ to give Jesus the full honour he is due?

4. Vs. 19. What is the main verb in this sentence and what are the three subordinate verbs (or participles ending in ‘ing’). What is the significance of this relationship between the verbs?

5. The preacher remarked that both community ‘incorporation’ as symbolized by Baptism and ‘indoctrination’ or ‘teaching’ were both necessary in the formation of radically new human beings. In your experience where is our church or the churches you have known strongest and weakest in these twin duties? Have we emptied Baptism of its rich meaning in our denominational emphases? Have we adequately passed on the faith from generation to generation?

6. Vs. 20 How have you discerned the presence of the ascended Jesus in the midst of our church/community life? What would it take for us to be more alert to His reigning amongst us now?