^ Click “Note” ^ Remember to write down some short notes for each of the questions below before heading to life group.

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Share 1 thing that stood out to you about Sunday's Message. (1 minute max please) Also press play button in image above to watch or listen to Sundays message if you missed it or just to refresh your memory. (Each Individual)

2. Women & Men (Not Women vs. Men)

Genesis 2:21-22

21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.

1 Corinthians 11:11-12

11 Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman; 12 for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.

On Sunday Pastor Vaughn asked us to consider what God may have been doing with Eve before He brought her to Adam. While we don’t know how much time they had or exactly what God spoke to her, we do not that men and women are different. God intends for the differences between men and women to be identified, meditated upon, and celebrated. Uniqueness does not create different value or worth between men and women. On Mother’s Day PV alluded to the different ways in which many/most women are able to encounter God and how that is different than the way that many/most men encounter Him. Do you agree with that opinion? Discuss that and any other areas you can think of where men and women seem to have different experiences socially, relationally, domestically, AND spiritually? (Group Discussion)

3. There Are "Layers" To This Thing

Luke 7:11-17

11 Soon afterward he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. 12 As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. 13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” 14 Then he came up and touched the bier (or gurney), and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” 15 And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother. 16 Fear seized them all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and “God has visited his people!” 17 And this report about him spread through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country.

What do we learn about Jesus in this story? What do we learn about life and death in this story? What do we learn about the relationship between Jesus and parents and their children? Jesus does things in “layered” ways where there are specific individual impacts and at the same time there are global revelations and impacts happening. What do we learn about the global revelation or goal of Jesus from the response of all the people who witnessed the young man being raised from death to life? (Group Discussion)

* Remember to pray for each other before heading home from life group and to stay in communication here in the app throughout the week on your life group messaging thread!