StoneBridge Community Church
Pastor Neal Nybo
On the first Easter, when three women arrived at the tomb to properly prepare Jesus' body for burial, a young man dressed in a white robe, greeted them there. He told them two things that changed them, changed the disciples and eventually, changed the world. What he told them may inspire your own, personal spiritual awakening...
Mark 16:1-8 NIV
GROWTH GROUP / PERSONAL REFLECTION QUESTIONS
1. When in your life has something been a source of confidence that let you take risks or be willing to change or try something new?
2. What about the empty tomb gives you confidence and security?
3. What might be different for you, if it was suddenly discovered that Jesus didn’t rise from the dead?
4. In what ways could you risk or change even more, if the empty tomb was a stronger sense of a firm foundation?
GROWTH GROUP / PERSONAL REFLECTION QUESTIONS
1. Which are you better at celebrating the empty tomb or getting going?
2. Besides acts of service, what are some ways we get going in our lives?
3. Does the example of feeling locked in a jail cell resonate with you?
4. What kinds of things keep us in our tomb, in our jail cells?
5. Have you fully left your empty tomb? Are there things you have not left behind?
6. What will it take for you to leave those things behind?
7. What would freedom look like without those things?
