1. Read Luke 24.13-53 incarnationally. Where do you find yourself in the story?
2. Describe the most recent time when your heart “burned.” What was the outcome of that season?
3. The disciples on the road to Emmaus received this great revelation. What was their immediate response?
4. How does the community in Jerusalem encourage the experience of these disciples?
5. How is your personal relationship with Jesus affirmed by your relationship with other believers? Describe recent experience.
6. Whom was the primary sower of seeds in your life? How did God use that person to begin producing spiritual fruit in you?
7. Read 2 Corinthians 5.17-21. How do you see yourself as a new creation in Christ? What’s new about you?
8. In what way do you see yourself as an ambassador for Christ? How does that calling encourage you?
9. What’s the ultimate purpose of transformation? How does your transformational journey effect those around you? Describe.
10. 2 Peter 1.3-4, Ephesians 3.17-19 describe the believer as participating in the “Divine nature.” What does that mean to you? How does the divine nature get lived out in you? What does it mean to be “filled to the measure of all the fullness of God?”
11. How are you learning to embrace the truth that you are a partaker of the Divine Nature? Be specific.
12. Read and reflect on words of Teresa of Avila and then answer the questions below.
“Christ has no body now by yours, no hand, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which He looks with compassion on the world, yours are the feet with which He walks to do good. Yours are the ands with which He blesses the world…Christ has no body now on earth but yours.”
How does this truth translate into your everyday ordinary life?
13. Read 1 John 4.13-17. It concludes with this phrase, “In this world we are like Jesus.” What does that phrase mean to you? Name any hesitation you have regarding the implication of God’s Word.
14. Read Acts 1.8, and 1 John 1.-4. Where is your “Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth?” How is your joy being made complete as you share His story with those around you?
15. Read Luke 24.45-53. How does this passage encourage you to be a “real Christian” in your home, with your neighbor and the nations?
