- Sunday, November 10, 2019 - Thanksgiving Lunch! The church is providing Turkey please bring a side dish to share.
- Fall Food Drive has begun. Please bring food for our Food Bank each Sunday in November.
- Sunday, November 10, 2019 Roosevelt Service 6 PM
Scripture
Luke 20:27-38 (ESV)
There came to him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, [28] and they asked him a question, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. [29] Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children. [30] And the second [31] and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died. [32] Afterward the woman also died. [33] In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife." [34] And Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, [35] but those who are b considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, [36] for they cannot die anymore, because they are f equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. [37] But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. [38] Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him."
Questions for Reflection
1. What do you imagine happens to us after death?
2. Why do you think there is so much confusion and controversy about the afterlife in our world today?
3. How have your beliefs in the afterlife changed over the years?
4. How did Luke describe the Sadducees? (20:27)
5. Why did the Sadducees approach Jesus? (20:27)
6. What was the main point of the lengthy story the Sadducees told Jesus? (20:28-33)
7. How did Jesus respond to the Sadducees’ question? (20:34-35)
8. What is the "age" to which Jesus referred? (20:35)
9. Who is "considered worthy"? (20:35)
10. In the age to come, what did Jesus promise to those who take part in the resurrection of the dead? (20:36)
11. How did Jesus describe God? (20:37-38)
12. Why did Jesus describe God as "the God of the living"? (20:38)
13. Why should we believe in the resurrection of the dead?
14. What makes belief in the resurrection an important Christian belief?
15. How should the promise of eternal life affect your everyday actions?
