Keep growing in your relationship with Jesus: Take the message with you into your week. Reflect on the Bible passage and sermon (posts Sun. afternoon), then use the ideas below to help you talk it over with your friends, coworkers, family, or Grow Group.

Icebreaker idea: What’s something in creation that pictures “new life” or “life after death” for you?

A way to pray: Pray that God will use His resurrection life in us to draw many others to Himself, too. Ask Him to reveal specific ways we can love our neighbors in this time, and to use that as part of seeing 2,000 people by 2022 baptized and growing in relationship with Jesus through the Word, prayer, and community.

• What are some specific ways I’ve experienced God’s steadfast love and unending mercies? How can I remember these examples of God’s past faithfulness, and how can they give me hope in times of pain?

• The empty tomb validates our hope in God. How has Jesus’ victory over death transformed the way I view my own life and death? How has it changed my view of God’s mercy?