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EBC 3, 2, 1! – On Location in 2025! 

Leading to Worship Sunday November 9, 2025 

 Reading: Luke 20:27-38 

EBC focuses on bringing the Bible into our Everyday Lives, emphasizing God’s Everyday presence by finding connections in our physical world! This week, we are reminded that resurrection is not something to “prove;” it is there for us as believers in Christ. Click here: https://youtu.be/vyVDwiIdnz8 

 Welcome to this week’s EBC 3,2,1! Three points, two questions, and one action step! 

 Three Points

 • Luke 20 finds Jesus in a familiar spot – with his opponents challenging him, trying to “trick” him into “proving” he is wrong. Some Sadducees who don’t believe in resurrection contrive a ridiculous hypothetical to try to disprove Jesus’ teachings about resurrection.

 • In Jewish law, from the time of Moses, if a husband died, the widow would marry the next eldest brother. So the Sadducees supposed that seven brothers died, one at a time, until the widow had been married to all of them, and then she too died. Whose wife, the Sadducees asked, would the wife be in the resurrection?

 • Earthly rules do not apply to the resurrection, however. Jesus rejected the notion that Jewish marriage customs applied to resurrection. People don’t die in heaven, and God is the God of the living, not of the dead. 

 Two Questions

 • What a weird way to attempt to disprove resurrection! But can you think of ways in which we, without being so obviously absurd, tend to apply our earthly understandings to heavenly, Godly things, and get twisted in a logic pretzel by what doesn’t “make sense” in our earthly paradigms? (If you’re having trouble, perhaps consider Genesis, Daniel, Feeding the 5,000, Good Friday, Acts. . . .)

 • If you were asked by someone to provide your best “evidence” of resurrection, what would you say? If you were asked to describe your faith in Jesus as giving us forgiveness and eternal life, what would you say? 

 Action Step

 • Tell someone your faith story – what brings you to believe in resurrection through Jesus?  

Don’t like these questions? Do these verses say something different to you? Great! What is it?  

And as always, you are encouraged to find a friend (or two or many) and take an EBC coffee break! Find 15-25 minutes somewhere in the week and share your faith. Have fun finding God this week in your Everyday Life!