Mission in the Easter Season

I'm attaching the video of Roger's sermon from Easter Sunday. If you weren't in worship, watch it! If you were there, it is a great sermon to watch again and meditate on throughout the Easter season. I think that the message gets at the heart of what Easter means for our participation on God's mission. 

A few questions to reflect on in response: 

• Roger says, "Maybe we have turned faith into an escape. But not Jesus." In what ways have you turned faith into an escape? How might our faith in Jesus lead us to be more present in the midst of suffering?
• Roger quotes Dietrich Bonhoeffer: "One who believes does not run." This was Bonhoeffer's reasoning for staying in Germany during the height of the Nazi rule, which eventually led to his death. When we refuse to "run," how does that show our belief in Jesus?
• Roger shares that what we call the "real world" is not the way things are supposed to be. Jesus has shown us the way things are supposed to be (i.e., the real real world) by entering into brokenness and death, and trusting God to raise him. In what ways can we be "agents of the real world" in Durham?