Week Four

Part 4: Leaving the baggage of the past behind — for the healing encounter

This month we are going to return to our key story of Bartimaeus (Mark 10: 46-52) multiple times, sometimes focusing on just one particular verse. Each time we revisit the story we hope to gain new insights as we consider all the layers going on in this moving sequence…

Read Mark 10: 50 (46-52 is the whole sequence) and Job 42: 1-6

What are we being called to leave behind as we reach out to be healed and restored?

Read Psalm 126

Can you see yourself — or the church — ever in the same place as the writer of the psalm?

Read Mark 10: 51 (46-52 is the whole sequence)

Could we utter the prayer of Bartimaeus — Rabbi I want to see? Reflect on what it means to be honest with God about our longings to see his kingdom come, to see peace and restoration.