Stations Of The Resurrection: Returning To Where It All Began

In this sermon within our Stations of the Resurrection series, Mark shares from the first half of John 21. In this message, the Resurrected Jesus meets the disciples and Peter in a profound moment of returning. John 21:1-14 www.thevineaustin.org REFLECTION QUESTIONS: 1. Share a memory of fishing. 2. Read John 21:1-14. What stands out to you in this passage today? What do you imagine the experience of these disciples to be? 3. What has stayed with you from the sermon: either encouraging, confusing or challenging? 4. Discuss the three stages of faith Mark shared in the sermon: childish, cynical, child-like. Describe each stage and what happens in the transition from one stage to another. 5. An aspect of moving into a child-like faith is the act of reclaiming. For those who have engaged with deconstruction, what do you want to reclaim with your faith? 6. Thomas Merton wrote, “There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.” How do you see this quote alive in this passage and in your own life?