Study Questions

1 Kings 17:17-24

1. In your own words, what is the Gospel, the Good News of Jesus Christ?
2. Have  you been in situations where you are a messenger of death?
3. What very honest questions have you asked of God in your suffering? How do the widow’s questions & Elijah’s questions of God model how to talk to God in our pain?
4. It seems a paradox for death to be Good News. How does this paradox prove true throughout Scripture?
5. The subject of death often brings with it questions about “the after life.” What promises has God made to us that make death “Good News?”