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1. Prior to Jesus' crucifixion, Simon Peter denied his association with Christ three times, just as the young boy in this clip denies his friendship with the young Jewish concentration camp captive. Peter went on to boldly proclaim the resurrected Christ in the years to follow, as did the other 10 disciples. The evidence changed them at their core. Compare and contrast times in your life when your words and actions denied knowing the resurrected Christ vs. the times when you clearly proclaimed the resurrected Christ.
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2. At this Buddhist temple, religion and ritual has replaced reality as practitioners symbolically go through a death and resurrection process to cleanse themselves from sin, bad luck, and business misfortune. Even eastern religions like Buddhism seem to acknowledge the need for a resurrection or re-birth, and yet they have only rituals to symbolically replicate the finished work that Christ did on the Cross and through the tomb. Prior to realizing that Christ has both filled and emptied the tomb on your behalf, what did you do in your own efforts to rid yourself of your "misfortunes", much as these deceived people are doing yet today? How does the knowledge of the completed work of Christ affect you today?
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3. Lee Strobel describes how his investigation of the evidence led him to only one logical conclusion: that it would take more faith to remain an atheist than to rely on the evidence of Christ's existence and truth and become a follower of Jesus. In like fashion, what are the three most convincing arguments or evidences described in scripture that you can stand on with regards to Christ's resurrection? (see One2Won week 13 text notes for list of 7 major defenses and common arguments and rebuttals)
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4. The contrasts of the resurrection are as stark as the black and white of this next clip. Through his death, we received an offer of life, that in accepting his life, we die to our own. Life and Death. Eternity and the present moment. Lost and found. This is the resurrection. Who were you that you are not now? What do you have now that you could have never had before on your own?
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