Zombie Jesus

Jesus often used pleasant, natural symbols to share about God’s love, like flowers, sheep, and birds. But how should we approach the verses in which he uses more dramatic and visceral symbols like blood and flesh? In the final week of the series, we’ll explore how Jesus shocked his original audience to help them think about their shared humanity and invite them into a more spiritually rich experience of God.

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Discussion Guide

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Before we begin, let’s take a quiet moment and pray for God’s direction of our time together. Then we’ll take a couple of minutes to go around and share where we’ve seen God at work in our lives this week and specifically how we were able to apply the Action Steps from last week’s discussion.

Introduction

We are in the third and final week of a series called Wait, Jesus Said What? We’re looking at some of Jesus’ most startling and difficult sayings and working together to understand the truth he wants us to learn. In this discussion, we’re going to look at this statement from Jesus: “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you cannot have eternal life within you.” But before we think and talk about this, let’s start with something a bit easier!

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Let’s start our discussion time with some “get-to-know-you” questions.

What is one food you could happily eat every week?

What is a food everyone seems to love that you could live without?

When you need to recharge physically or emotionally, what usually helps?