The Servant King - Mark 6.1-13

Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario

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growgroups are taking a break for the summer, but here are some questions for personal study, or for discussion around your meal table at home. 

 

"The person who lives a life of unbelief will never know what they’re missing. 

The person who lives a life of faith knows exactly what they have. And they wouldn’t change it for the world!"

Know

• 6:1Jesus went home to Nazareth. What do you think were his expectations for his arrival?

Grow

• 6:3 – Why did knowing Jesus’ family cause the people in Nazareth to take offense at Him?
• Dan says that the life of unbelief is a self-fulfilling prophecy: if we expect nothing from God, we receive nothing. How have you seen this principle at work in your own life?
• How do we draw the line between faith (trusting God to do something amazing) and presumption (insisting that He must do something)? Think of examples of presumptive prayer you’ve seen. How did this strike you?
• 6:7 The bible doesn’t say, but when Jesus gave the disciples the authority to cast out demons, do you think they felt different afterwards? If so how?
• Does the phrase “familiarity breeds contempt” reflect your relationship with Jesus at all? In what way? Take some time to talk to Him about it.
• The person who lives a life of unbelief will never know what they’re missing.

The person who lives a life of faith knows exactly what they have. And they wouldn’t change it for the world!

Which describes you?

• How can someone move from a life of unbelief to a life of faith? How do you even go about it?
• Why do you think we don’t see more miracles today? Are we in danger of being a ‘Nazareth’? If so, how?
• Do you believe that someone can be a Christian and miss the reason that God created them for? Why or why not?

Show

• What is holding you back from ‘traveling light’ and living out God’s purpose for you here on earth?