A Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is John 20:11-23. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection!

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1. What do you do when you are afraid? What frightens you about living as a Christian?

2. How did Jesus respond to the disciples' fear on the first Easter? Does that encourage you?

3. What mission does the church have? How do we learn about that mission? What keeps us from carrying it out? How does Jesus encourage his disciples?

4. Jesus blesses his disciples as he sends them out. How does this combined blessing and sending work itself out today?

5. Read the story of Mary again. With what kind of emotion do you think she went to the disciples? How does joy of Easter arrive in us?

6. What is central to the mission of the church? How can we keep it in clear focus?

7. What gift does Jesus leave with his disciples? Does that encourage you?