As we walk through the Christian year together, each season will be accompanied by a guiding question – a question to wrestle with, pray through, and bring to God. During the season of Easter, as we celebrate and practice resurrection, we’re asking together: “What are we seeing come alive?”

In the message, Casey talks about how the way of Jesus leads us out beyond ourselves. How do give genuine and needed attention to our spiritual lives without becoming self-focused and isolated from the world? 

If Jesus is the way, then our faith is not simply a destination, but a continual journey with him that grows us along the way. What have you learned about Jesus (or yourself!) in this part of your faith journey that you couldn’t have known in seasons past? 

14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.” Jesus the Way to the Father 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” 8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” 9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

John 14:1-14 (NIV)

1. The way of Jesus will always lead us to the FATHER.

2. The way of Jesus will always lead us BEYOND OURSELVES.

“like a pyramid scheme, any church whose mission is merely to grow and perpetuate itself will eventually collapse, but only after destroying the lives and faiths of many innocent people. Unlike a pyramid scheme, the true church does not exist merely for its own advancement.”
— Skye Jethani, What If Jesus Was Serious about the Church?

3. The way of Jesus will always choose LOVE.

“If you love me, keep my commands.
John 14:15 (NIV)

Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
John 14:23-24 (NIV)

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
John 15:12 (NIV)