We Look for the Resurrection of the Dead
Sermon by Fr. Bob Fabey3rd Sunday of AdventQuestions for Group Discussion1. What do you find yourself looking (or maybe longing for) each day and week? (ie, not your wallet or glasses, but peace, joy, meaning etc.)2. The Resurrection means…that people already dead would be given new bodieswould return to an embodied life not entirely unlike the one they had had beforeThey would exist in God’s new creationJesus was the Messiah – Israel’s Messiah, God’s Messiah, and hence the world’s true Lord.This meant that there was and is ‘another king’ (Acts 17.7):It is Jesus - because he was resurrected.Which of these realities have you considered before? What impact has it made on you?It is good news about an event that has happened in the world, an event because of which the world can never be the same again. And those who believe it, and live by it, will (thank God!) never be the same again either.” – NT Wright.3. How have you changed since meeting Jesus?4. Have you ever thought of our love for God, our family, friends, and enemies being a bridge to the Resurrection? How does that work?5. What does it mean to lead a “death-defying existence?”How God will take our prayer, our art, our love, our writing, our political action, our music, our honesty, our daily work, our pastoral care, our teaching, our whole selves – how God will take this and weave its varied strands into the glorious tapestry of his new creation, we can at present have no idea. That he will do so is part of the truth of the resurrection, and perhaps one of the most comforting parts of all. – N.T. Wright
