Questioned

Session 3

Mark 3:20-30

ENGAGE

Ask:

• How many of you have ever heard this from a child? ""You're not the boss of me! "

read the introductory paragraph on page 29 that begins:

Questions about authority come up in families, as parents guide their children from infancy to maturity.

Discuss:

everyone answers to some authority.

Ask:

• To what authorities do you answer in your daily life?
• What impact does that make on your life?

Contextualize:

review the location of Jesus’s Galilean ministry.
Remind the group about the various places in which Jesus ministered around the Sea of Galilee.

• from baptism to preaching in Galilee.
• From Peter's house to Capernaum.
• From the wilderness to the seashore.
• From synagogue to mountains to grain fields.

Transition:

In today’s session, we’re going to look at the nature of Jesus’s authority
and how people responded to it.

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