September 4, 2023
Grow-Go-Sow Lesson 36
TAKE UP YOUR CROSS
Text: Luke 9:23–27
Topic(s): Dedication, Sacrifice
Big Idea of the Message: In this passage, Jesus explains that following him involves being willing to embrace enormous sacrifices.
Application Point: Every relationship, love, and desire must pale in comparison to our dedication to Christ.
Discussion Questions:
1. What is one thing that stood out to you from this week’s message?
2. When and where did you decide to follow Jesus?
3. What did you think following Jesus would cost you? Has it been the way you thought it would be?
4. Why does Jesus use such vivid imagery to describe following him?
5. What might need to change in your life for you to follow Jesus more as he describes?
Before leaving earth, Jesus commands his followers to make disciples of all nations.
Jesus rose again, his physical body made alive again. Although Thomas had his doubts about the resurrection, Jesus presented him with the evidence he needed.
All of Scripture points to Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection.
Though innocent, Jesus was crucified to fulfill God’s promise of redemption.
At the Passover meal, Jesus instituted the practice of Communion—a vital ritual that reminds us of the atonement.
Jesus didn’t come to destroy God’s work in the Old Testament but to fulfill what it had been always pointing toward: a pure righteousness through Jesus Christ.
Jesus displayed his power to heal spiritually by healing physically.
As Jesus explains to Nicodemus, it is only through being recreated by the Spirit (made possible by Jesus’s ministry) that one can be made right before God.
Jesus’s baptism and temptation represent his identification with humanity’s failures and sin, as well as his anointing and preparation to preach the gospel.
In this text, Paul explains that the body of Christ is filled with people who are gifted in many different ways; we should all seek to be unified with one another, journeying together in love.
