Term 2

1. Share an experience of life coaching, mentoring or internship.

2. Identify an area in your Christian experience where you learnt by ‘doing’.

3. “We learn more from our failures than our successes.”
Is this a valid comment? Can you give examples?

4. What do you think the ‘cup’ and ‘baptism’ of Mark 10:38
mean? Compare Luke 22:42

5. Can you think of an area in your Christian life where you
would like support to enable you to ‘risk’ more?

6. In what ways could we be more civil and appreciative of

1. Relate an experience of ‘healing’ in which a church was involved.

2. Do you think people outside the church would consider that the church has a lack of compassion or a lack of ability to be involved in a hurting world?

3. What place does ‘sin’ play in sickness?
Consider Mark 2: 3 – 12
Mark 5: 1 – 13
John 5: 6
John 9: 3

4. How do you feel about ‘moving’ on from someone with whom you have been in a long-term helping relationship?

5. In what ways has a church played a ‘preventative’ role in your well-being?

6. Pray for one another in your study group.

1. In what areas do you have a responsibility to be a teacher – formal or informal?

2. Reflect on the following statement:
“Authoritative teaching is that which creates a desire for learning, not that which forces information on others.”

3. Share an experience of authoritative and/or authoritarian teachers

4. Read Mark 12: 38 – 40. What are some 21st Century equivalents to the actions of these ‘scribes’ or ‘teachers of the law”?

5. What do you make of Matthew 28: 18 – 20 in regard to ‘going with Jesus’ authority’? What difference does this make?

6. Which teaching of Jesus has had a profound influence on your living?

1. What emotion does the word ‘obedience’ evoke?
(Rebellion/fear/security)

2. What areas of obedience do you think the temptations of Jesus raise? Refer to Matthew 4: 1 – 11

3. To what degree does relationship with God affect your Christian living?

4. Hebrews 5:8 is a key text. How is it helpful to your thinking about obedience?

5. Discuss the statement: The Kingdom of God is more about ‘rule’ than ‘rules’. Is this distinction helpful? Why?

6. If baptism is a ‘beginning’ for Jesus' ministry, reflect on baptism in your Christian experience.

1. King Nebuchadnezzar had a problem. To whom did he turn for help? What were these people's skills? 2:1-3
2. If you have encountered people who have sought help from supernatural spirit beings for their problems, describe how they did so, and whether they presented this help as beneficial.
3. What should a God-believer's view be, about seeking such help? Provide passages from the Bible to substantiate your position.
4. If a person seeks help from supernatural spirit beings for their problems, what (in effect) is he or she saying about the nature and character of God?
5. Daniel's life was overwhelmed by forces outside his control. 2:13