The Beauty of Baptism--Lesson 1--More Than a Symbol--Genesis 1 + Various Passages

Discussion Questions:

1. How do water, blood and the Spirit provide a witness to who God is and what His mission

is in this world?

2. In what ways have you seen your life pass from darkness to light? From slavery to

freedom? From death to life?

3. How does it help you to know that God does not remove the darkness until heaven? How

does this help you to better understand the trials and challenges we face even when we

are dedicated to following the LORD?

4. How have you seen baptism consistently point to new life and a better future? What

keeps you from understanding how special and valuable you are to God?

5. What does it say to you that God keeps using the same script over and over again

throughout the story of the Scriptures?

Here's Your Sign--Lesson 8--But Wait! There's More!--John 21

Discussion Questions:

1. Tell of a time when you were unfruitful or unsuccessful and later saw how the LORD used

that to develop your character and faith.

2. In what ways has your life felt like a fallen Jenga tower? How have you seen the LORD

rebuild and restore people’s lives from this kind of fallen mess?

3. How does going back to your call from Jesus help you find your bearings when life is

disorienting?

4. How have you seen listening to the LORD and obeying His instructions make six feet of

difference in your life? What kind of full nets stories would you attribute to Jesus’

presence in your life?

5. Why is confessing and revisiting our failures such an important part of healing and moving

forward? How does Jesus’ series of reminders to Peter help him to become such a

powerful witness and ambassador for the Kingdom of God from the Day of Pentecost

onward?

Here's Your Sign--Lesson 7--Living It Up at a Funeral--John 11

Discussion Questions:

1. Have you had any situations where it felt like Jesus knew you needed Him but He was

deliberately staying away?

2. How does resurrection offer us more than just coming back from the dead? What

difference does it make that resurrection is a person instead of a concept?

3. Do you agree that God’s punctuation is more of an ellipsis instead of a period? How does

resurrection tie into this?

4. If Jesus knows He is about to raise Lazarus from the dead, why are His emotions stirred

leading to Him weeping? How does this portray the kind of High Priest Jesus is?

5. How does believing in Jesus as the resurrection and the life affect the way you handle

things that come up in your day-to-day living? If it does not affect things in a positive way,

can you really say you believe?