Eight sessions on the evidence for the resurrection, built for a table of exactly three: a leader, a co-investigator, and a friend who grants that Jesus lived and was crucified but doubts that he rose. No one here is a subject or a project. All three take every test, write and seal their own verdicts, and sign the same ledger lines. The method is simple: start only with facts scholars across the spectrum grant, and put every other explanation at full strength before testing it, survival, wrong tomb, theft, hallucination and legend. Sources from outside Scripture are printed on cards and read aloud at the table, hostile and neutral voices included, with the limits of each one stated plainly. The study opens where St. Paul opens, on the claim that the whole faith falls if the tomb was not empty, then walks through the death, the burial, the witnesses, the hostile witnesses, the aftermath and the verdict, and asks in the last session what kind of body rose. Two things run all the way through. The Fact Ledger is a printed sheet on the table, and a line only goes on it when all three sign. Private verdicts are sealed in Session 1 and opened in Session 7. Every session carries Old Testament roots, three Voices of the Church, Catechism connections, and notes on leading it well. Scripture is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. Leader guides and take-home sheets for every session.
If Christ Has Not Been Raised runs 8 sessions. Every session comes with a complete leader's preparation guide and a printable take-home sheet for the people in the room, and the full text of each night can be read on a phone from the list below. All of it is free to download, print, and share, with no sign up and no cost, and the Fact Ledger is a separate two page sheet kept on the table, and you can print it on its own.
How these studies were created, including our use of AI
Every session below carries three links. Read opens the full session on a phone, Sheet downloads that night's participant take-home sheet, and Leader opens the leader's guide for that session. Nothing is held back and nothing asks for an email address.
You do not need to be a theologian to lead If Christ Has Not Been Raised. The leader's guide carries the questions, the answers, and the background, so the group can discover the text together. There is a short guide to hosting a Bible study if this is your first one, and a set of six questions that will help you choose a study if you are still deciding.