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Discussion Questions

1. From an April 2023 article by Gallup, most respondents around the world (57%) think that there is life after death.  One in four (23%) do not believe that anything happens when we die. 15% cannot say. Why do you think people do not believe or cannot say if there is life after death?  How would you try to convince an unbeliever that there is life after death?

2. What are the dangers and consequences of having an incorrect, unrealistic understanding of what happens after death? How does such a belief affect how a person lives in this life?  Do believers always live according to the reality of life after death?  Explain. 

3. The Bible teaches that marriage alludes to, or is a shadow of Christ’s relationship to His church (Ephesians 5:31-32).   Although not every believer gets married and not every Christian marriage experiences deep love and intimacy, using the ideal of human marriage as the example, describe what you think every believer should look forward to in the life to come.

4. Jesus references the life of Moses and Abraham to show that God is the God of the living and not the dead.  Using Moses and Abraham as an example, how should believers, who look forward to the life to come, live their lives in the present world? (For reference, please read Hebrews 11:8-28)

5. Do you believe in life after death and that our best life is yet to come?  Explain your answer.  Our passage this week forces us to contemplate the consequences of focusing only on this life - being so infatuated with this life - that we don’t live for the age to come.  How could many of our present problems go away if we were to change our focus from this life to the next?