The Final Days Leader Guide: A Lenten Journey Through the Gospels

This Lent ponder the themes of justice poverty freedom and love.The Leader Guide contains discussion questions and session plans for a six-week study of The Final Days by Matt Rawle. It includes opening and closing prayers optional activities and session goals for each week and is designed to be used with the book and DVD.The four New Testament Gospels arent the same story but they offer the same Resurrection hope. Matthew Mark Luke and John devote most of their story detailing Jesus last week in Jerusalem all highlighting Jesus triumphant entry into the city the suffering and humiliation of the cross and the empty tomb come Sunday morning but the stories they tell arent quite the same. Each Gospel offers a different lens through which we understand Jesus Passion. One portrait reveals Jesus to be in control while another emphasizes his suffering. In one story Jesus offers hope to the thief on the cross and in another Jesus only receives derision. These different perspectives arent a reason to dismiss the Gospels; rather they reveal an abundant diverse and complementary picture of Gods work in the suffering death and resurrection of Jesus.