The King Meets Our Deepest Need

Small Group Questions

1)  What do people in Toronto think is our world’s greatest need?

Read Mark 2:1-12

2)  What is Mark’s reminder to us about Jesus in setting the stage in vs. 1-4?

3)  In vs. 1-5, how is Jesus’ treatment of the paralytic surprising?  Put yourself in the place of the paralytic – what are you thinking / feeling? What is Jesus teaching us?

4)  Do you think most people in our culture care about the forgiveness from God?  If not, why not?

5)  What was Jesus’ blasphemy according to the teachers of the law?  He answers their charge with a question.  What is the correct answer to that question and what is the point of it?

6)  In vs. 6-12, why do both Jesus (v. 10) and the teachers (v. 7) say it takes authority to forgive sins?

7)  How does Jesus meet our greatest need?

8)  If most in our world do not see that our greatest need is forgiveness – how can we show others / know personally that it is in fact our greatest need?