Gospel Journey

Living faith in a Living God

Welcome to the GOSPEL JOURNEY. This week we'll be working through the sentence: Paying the price for sin, Jesus died and rose again. These posts are to help you engage with the central message of the Bible. Comment. Question. Agree. Disagree. Either way, let us know what you think.

Living faith in a living God.

Do you ever think "what if?" What if I would have been born in 1160AD? What if disco was still popular? What if Danny didn't have that killer physique? Most "what if's" are a pretty silly game to play, but Paul asks a pretty important one. What if Jesus did not raise from the dead? Check out I Corinthians 15:12-19, and answer these questions:

1. If someone refuses to believe in a resurrection after death, what must they do with the story of Jesus?
2. If there is no life after death, what does that do to our faith?
3. If Jesus were still dead, what would that say about Him? What would that say about God the Father?
4. Could you have forgiveness if Christ remained in the tomb?
5. What assurances do you have in the fact that Christ is alive today?

It is critical that we remember the resurrection when presenting the gospel. It can be easy to focus so much attention on the sacrifice of Christ that we leave Him on the cross in our presentation. But Christ is not still dead. He is fully alive and we can have the assurance He will raise us to life because death couldn't keep Him down.

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