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Session 1

Mark 1:1-13

ENGAGE

Prior to the Session:

discover customs for meeting new people in various countries.
(Examples: shaking hands, kissing on the cheek, touching noses, and so forth)

Ask:

• What is the most unusual way you have been introduced to someone?

discuss customs for making introductions.

State:

Every culture has a way of making introductions
because those initial connections mark the beginning point of a relationship.

Read:

read aloud the first paragraph on page 13
discuss how introductions impact the nature of a relationship.

Contextualize:

Use Pack Item 8 (Handout: Background of Mark s Gospel),
provide an overview of Mark s Gospel.
Discuss Mark s identity, the date of his Gospel, its original audience, its purpose, and its major themes.

emphasize that many scholars believe that Mark s Gospel was the first one written
and that his audience primarily consisted of Gentile Christians.

Transition:

Let s look closer at how Mark introduced Jesus to the initial readers of his Gospel.

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