Discussion questions:

1 .Did anyone have a significant moment during any portion of Sunday’s service? 

2. Elder Ron mentioned that Jesus asked about 60 questions in the gospel of Mark. Some of them are listed below. Take turns picking one of them (as time allows) and discuss what Jesus asked, who He was talking to, and why He asked the question that He did. You may want to read the verses aloud and include a few verses before and after for context. Take your time looking them over first, and it’s ok if you only get to discuss one or two.

• • • Mark 8: 27-29 “Who do people say that I am?”
    • Mark 2:8-9 “Why do you question these things in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say ‘Rise up, take your bed and walk’?”
    • Mark 8:17-21 “Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread?…how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up…Do you not yet understand?”
    • Mark 5:38-42 “Why are you making a commotion? The child is not dead but sleeping.”
    • Mark 8:34-38 “…For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul?”
    • Mark 10:35-40 “What do you want me to do for you?…Are you able to drink the cup that I drink…?”
    • Mark 11:15-18 “…Is it not written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? But you have made it a den of robbers.”
    • Mark 14:36-37 “…Abba Father, all things are possible with you…Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour?”
    • Mark 15:34 “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

3. Elder Ron mentioned that when Jesus asks a question, he contrasts our material perspective with the perspective of eternity. Have you ever been confronted by Jesus in this way? If so, how did it change you?