Week Three

Part 3: Believing the voice that says - “Take heart he is calling you.”

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: 49 (46-52 is the whole sequence)

Do you have a sense of God calling you in your work? (And by work that could be paid or unpaid, time spent caring for others, or volunteering, or studying or any other responsibilities you have.) 

How different would your work be if you believed God had called you to it?

Read Mark 10: 35-45

The Brothers Zebedee want status — they want to be seen as prominent and important. But Jesus shows them that being important as disciple isn’t about being prominent and lording it over others as a high official. Instead it’s about service and sacrifice.

How do you think James and John felt after this encounter? And how do you think they managed to take heart after?

Read Romans 8: 28-39

To be called by God is not an afterthought on his part. How do you feel reading verses 37-39?