Weekly Podcast from Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, North Gower, Ontario
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The Passage
Mark 12:1-12
The One Thing
Our access to God’s amazing grace has an expiration date.
growgroup questions
Know
- Have you made any New Year’s resolutions?
Grow
- Put yourself in Isaac Jogues’ position. Consider his mind and heart. Consider his thoughts. What drove him to return to a place and people group that he knew 100% were very dangerous? Could you do what he did?
- Israel killed the prophets God sent. In what way are we guilty of killing the prophets? of crucifying Christ?
- If your attempts to get people to fulfilltheir contractual obligations had been violently refused, what would you do? What was the logic of the father in the parable in sending his only son? What was the motivation for God to send His only Son?
- What did the tenant farmers think they would gain from killing the landlord’s son? What did the Jewish leaders hope to gain by killing Jesus? What did they in fact accomplish?
- Whatdo secular people say when asked about judgment and hell? What do you think is necessary for them to accept the truth? Do you know any logical arguments that might be compelling?
- How did the Jewish leaders react when they lost their debate with Jesus? What persons or organizations do you know of that, when faced with the truth claims of Christianity, respond with hatred or violence?
- The Sanhedrin postponed their persecution of Jesus because they feared the crowd (12:12). How does this expose faulty reasoning on their part?
Show
- How might it be helpful to highlight people’s faulty reasoning during evangelism?
