Discuss with your friends
Would you like to discover for yourself what God is like and how God wants you to live?
Most people like to make these discoveries in a group with their friends. Here are some questions to get your discussion started
Discovering Spiritual Community #13
Caring for one another
1. What are you thankful for this week?
2. What are you struggling with and how can we help?
Accountability
3. How did you put into practice the scripture/story we studied last time we met?
4. Who did you share last week's lesson with and how did it go?
5. What needs did you meet in the community last week?
Discover
6. Ask someone to read the passage one paragraph at a time.
7. Have a group member tell it in their own words.
8. Ask the group if they added anything or left anything out.
Mark 4:35-41
35 That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, ‘Let us go over to the other side.’36 Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him.37 A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped.38 Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, ‘Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?’
39 He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, ‘Quiet! Be still!’ Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.
40 He said to his disciples, ‘Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?’
41 They were terrified and asked each other, ‘Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!’
Application
9. When you finish with ALL paragraphs, ask someone in the group to tell the WHOLE story by memory. Have the group correct any errors.
10. What does this passage tell us about God?
11. What does this passage tell us about people?
Planning
12. If this passage is true, what behaviour should we change this week?
13. Who will you tell this story to this week?
14. What needs can we meet in the community this week?
