Lent 2 Study Group What does following Jesus mean?
Loving
God help us to follow you
On
the road to Jerusalem and beyond
To
turn away from a safe and ordinary life
And
to embrace boldly the way before us.
Draw a flower with four petals and
write in each petal something you are doing at present you really enjoy, in
another something you are finding difficult, something that taxes you
physically, something that taxes you spiritually. Share with your neighbour.
Read Mark 8v31-38.
What words or phrases speak to you and why?
What is cross bearing
discipleship? What about success?
How do we declare
ourselves for Jesus? Have you recently experienced trouble because you’ve done
this? How do your family respond to your faith?
Are
we a suffering messianic community? Is it embarrassing?
Is
sometimes the sign of the cross enough of a witness?
Bonhoeffer
wrote, "is the grace we bestow on ourselves...grace without
discipleship....Costly grace is costly because it costs a person their life,
and it is grace because it gives us the only true life."
Let us pray for those who need our
prayers.
Blessing
The eyes of the blind will be opened
The ears of the deaf will be unstopped
The lame shall leap like a deer
And the tongue of the dumb shall sing
