Session 1 Discussion Questions - "God Talk"
1. When have you felt most comfortable or at ease with your faith? What were some of the factors that made it easy to believe?
2. Conversely, when has faith felt difficult or challenging? When was it difficult to believe? How did having other Christians around you help (or not) during this time?
3. What are some of the adjectives that you might use to describe God? Compassionate, loving, stern, just, tender? What kind of picture do the words you choose offer you of God? And where do you think your picture of God came from - Sunday school, your family, the Bible, experiences with and of other Christians?
Read Luke 24:1-35
1. Where do you see evidence of questions or doubt in these stories? What do you make of them? How are these doubts resolved?
2. If the disciples had questions and doubts, how does that rflect on the questions and doubts we might bring to this study? After reading these passages, how do you imagine the relationship between doubt and faith?
3. Why do you think it seems that Luke emphasizes the believing community in his story about Jesus? That is, Luke doesn't share any stories of an individual's encounter with the Risen Jesus. Instead, Jesus appears to groups - of the disciples, of the two walking to Emmaus, etc. What do you think this says about the importance of gathering with other Christians to talk about our shared faith?
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