Irresistible | Week 1
Week 1 All Our Eggs in One Basket
Life Group Discussion Guide
Note to the Leaders:
This discussion guide is a help for you to engage and steer the conversation within your group.
You do not have to read every question; this is just resources for you to move the main idea forward.
Do your best to make the story come to life by asking questions that will spur your group conversations that make this story play come alive and become applicable to their lives.
Key Verse: John 5:39
You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!
Getting Started:
Once upon a time there was a version of our faith that was irresistible, despite all odds, without an official Bible, no political or moral status, with little chance of survival... the early church irresistibly flourished.
Digging In:
Somewhere along the way Christianity has lost the heart of what once made it irresistible.
Most people have rejected the faith for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with Jesus
Why do you think we now live in a post Christian culture where more people are rejecting the faith than believing it?
How have we as Christians unintentionally given people reason to reject the faith?
How should this change our approach to how we share our faith?
Read John 5:39
You search the scripture because you think they give you eternal life. But the scriptures point to me
According to this scripture what is the basis of Christianity? Jesus is the basis of our faith.
Read Luke 22:20 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.’”
Read: Jerimiah 31:31-33 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. Not like the covenant that I made with their fathers…I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts.
What makes the new covenant different from the old covenant and more irresistible?
Relationships are always more meaningful than a religion based on rules.
Read: Hebrews 10:12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God.
Why did the disciples begin to follow Jesus?
Read John 6:68-69 Lord to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”
After the crucifixion of Jesus there were no Christian. Everyone had abandoned their faith because Jesus was dead.
Read 1 Peter 3:15 “Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.” –
Why did Peter after choosing to unfollow Jesus on the night of his crucifixion, choose to follow Jesus?
Our Faith was Broadcasted when a Handful of Jesus Followers saw him alive from the dead.
A total of some 500 eyewitnesses saw Jesus alive from the dead.
The Christian faith was and is propelled with the Resurrection of Jesus.
The Resurrection serves as the reason we give for the hope that is in us.
The Resurrection serves as our reasoning for the reliability of the Christian Scripture.
Just as the Resurrection served as the reason for the hope early believers…the resurrection serves as the reason for the hope we have.
How does this thinking change our approach in reaching others with the Good News of God’s love?
Christianity can stand on its own, nail scarred, resurrection, first-century new covenant feet.
The hope we have to share is not based on our ability to defend the Bible, the actions of the Church or other Christians, but on the resurrection that confirms Jesus is who he said he was and did What he said he would do.
Our relationship with God is based on our own personal encounter with the risen savior and although scripture helps us and is vital to our continued growth it is that personal encounter that establishes our faith in Jesus rather than in text.
It is the single basket of the resurrection that we place our eggs of faith in.
Like the first century church how can we leverage the resurrection to help others receive the gift of eternal life instead of a list of rules and regulations.
Once upon a time, without an official Bible, no political or moral status, with little chance of the survival, our faith was based on a single event – the historically documented resurrection of Jesus.