1.What is the best unexpected news you’ve ever received?

READ: John 20:1-8

2.How do you think you would respond if you were in the position of Mary, Peter, or John and discovered the empty tomb?

READ: John 20:9 & 1 Corinthians 15:16-17

3.Why did Jesus have to rise from the dead? What did it accomplish?

READ: Romans 8:11

4.What is the signifcance that the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead now lives in us?

READ: 1 Corinthians 15:3-5

5.What is the significance of Jesus appearing to many people after his resurrection, and how do you think this event shaped their beliefs and practices?

6.In what ways did you have to look again at Jesus?

READ: 1Peter 1:3

7.How does the hope of the empty tomb and resurrection change how we respond to the difficult circumstances in our own lives?