Session 5

Includes

Session 5

Mark 7:24-37

ENGAGE

Introduce:

imagine being a first-time guest to the group.
share some emotions that go along with being a “first-timer” in any new group.

(Possible answers:

• excitement,
• nervousness,
• fear,
• doubts,
• anxiety, and so forth)

Note: If you have some first-time visitors, do not put them on the spot.

Enlist an adult to read the first paragraph on page 45.

Ask:

• When have you most felt like an outsider?
• What did that experience feel like?

Transition:

explain how Jesus’s miracles revealed his care and concern for people.
In today’s session, we’re going to look at how Jesus includes everyone and extends mercy to all people.

EXPLORE THE TEXT

Contextualize:

remind the group about the various places in which Jesus ministered around the Sea of Galilee.

Summarize:

Use Understand the Context (p. 45)
to provide an overview of Jesus’s ministry in Mark 7–8.

Remind adults that, unlike the religious leaders of the day,
Jesus always paid more attention to what was going on inside people.