Engaging Gospel Doctrine (Episode 153)

Lesson 27

“He Is Not Here, for He Is Risen”

Hook / From childhood most of us are conditioned to hope for, even expect the happy ending. Similarly, we seem almost wired to hope for a setting right of all wrongs, including victory over death.
Manual Goal / To help class members feelgratitudefor the Savior’s Resurrectionand the blessings it brings us.
EGD Goal / To help class members hope for the resurrection in an empowering way as well as to celebrate the resurrections that occur during this life as well.

Lesson 27: Resurrection

  1. Sunday School
  2. Resurrection and hope (how it functions in our lives)
  3. Review the Reading
  4. Mary Magdalene as witness to the resurrection (and my favorite passage! “Stop embracing me”)
  5. Pascal’s grave (atheist wager, if you knew your existence would end at death, would you live your life differently?)
  6. Resurrection moments during our life (focus on this. Sometimes resurrection can be as simple as going to bed after a hard day. Or a shower. Other times it is far more profound. Circumstances, relationships, even identity—so often we must let the old die so the new can be reborn, resurrect)
  7. Living fully here and hereafter (responsibily balancing hope in the afterlife with a full, empowering approach to this life)
  8. Scripture Study
  9. Resurrection appearances (Mark’s surprise ending, Mt/Lk/Jn/1 Cor)
  10. The empty tomb and belief in the resurrection
  11. Different kinds of belief in the afterlife
  12. Not much of one (Sheol)
  13. Reincarnation
  14. Unification with God (non-individual afterlife)
  15. Disembodied individual afterlife (ghosts, spirits)
  16. Embodied afterlife
  17. Study Notes
  18. Progression between the kingdoms/MMP
  19. “look forward to but not gamble on” the afterlife/Is belief in the afterlife empowering or disempowering?
  20. Science and the afterlife (NDEs, nature of consciousness)
  21. Resurrection down the rabbit hole
  22. Literal, mystical resurrection (If you think really hard about resurrection it starts making less sense. If we will transcend our bodies as God does, why is it so important that we keep them? It seems to be another example of clinging to the familiar)
  23. Resurrection by other means
  24. Other continuation of consciousness
  25. Afterlife without resurrection
  26. Life before and after death

Resurrection

Visceral hooks snag scars

Past paralyzes

Function halts

Sleep

Body corpse heavy

Motion unimaginable

My brokenness and I

Fetal sitting in shower

Hot staccato kneading out trauma

Swirling shadows down the drain

Reborn,

For now.

Yale course on death:

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