Apr
24
Text: John 20:1-10 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. List the 3 witnesses John lists to attest to the validity of Christ’s resurrection and discuss the importance and implications of each.
2. How should a believer respond to a non believer who says that they would believe in Christ if someone could prove to them that Christ rose from the grave?
3. How would you respond to someone who asked you the question “why do YOU believe in the resurrection of Christ?
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: “Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself.”
John 20:6-7 ESV
http://bible.com/59/jhn.20.6-7.esv
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Apr
17
Text: John 19:31-42 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. List and discuss some of the possible interpretations of Jesus having blood and water flow from His side after His death.
2. What evidences does John give to attest to the authenticity of Jesus’ death?
3. Why does John spend so much time and energy in explaining and discussing the death of Jesus?
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: “But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe.”
John 19:34-35 ESV
http://bible.com/59/jhn.19.34-35.esv
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Apr
10
Text: John 19:16-30 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text
1. Explain and discuss the following quote. “Our God is a God who intrudes”
2. What was John’s primary focus in writing about the crucifixion of Christ? Discuss.
3. What is the significance of the 2 OT prophecies (psalm 22 and 69) that John records Jesus fulfilling in his book?
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: “When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.”
John 19:30 ESV
http://bible.com/59/jhn.19.30.esv
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Apr
3
Text: John 19:1-16 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. How is Jesus our King? How does this affect our daily living in this world.
2. If Jesus is our king, then who or what is his kingdom? Explain. Support with scripture.
3. Look at this passage closely from the perspective of Pilot. What do you think was going through his mind? How do you think he felt? What is the benefit of viewing this portion of scripture through the eyes of an unbelieving ruler? Discuss.
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: “So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above…”
John 19:10-11 ESV
http://bible.com/59/jhn.19.10-11.esv
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Mar
27
Text: John 18:28-40 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text
1. How and why is Jesus a Righteous King?
2. How and why is Jesus a spiritual King?
3. How and why is Jesus a self-sacrificing King?
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: “Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.””
John 18:36 ESV
http://bible.com/59/jhn.18.36.esv
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Mar
13
Text: John 18:1-12 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. Spend time comparing and contrasting: The Setting, The Temptations, and The Results of the garden of Eden (The first Adam) with the garden of Gethsemane (The second Adam)
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Note: In the following verse, give special attention to the cup that Christ says he will drink as it is symbolic of the cup that is used in the Lord’s Supper. The cup of judgement was drank by Christ through His suffering and death.
Suggested verse for meditation: “So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?””
John 18:11 ESV
http://bible.com/59/jhn.18.11.esv
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Mar
6
Text: 1 Cor 11:17-34 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. List and discuss each of the 7 points listed in the Sermon on How the Lords Supper is to be Observed.
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: “and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”
1 Corinthians 11:24-26 ESV
http://bible.com/59/1co.11.24-26.esv
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Feb
21
Text: John 17:20-26 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. How can you bring about unity amongst other Christians around you that are not a part of Emmaus? Furthermore, how are you bringing about unity with other Christians who have differing theological beliefs?
2. What are/is the defining factor(s) when unity must cease and division begin between two proclaiming Christians?
3. Discuss the following statement from the sermon, “Jesus divides, doctrine unites”.
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.
Suggested verse for meditation: “that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.”
John 17:21 ESV
http://bible.com/59/jhn.17.21.esv
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