Mark 8:1-21

• The Hungry Crowd Is Satisfied (8:1-10)

Mark 6:51-52

• The Arrogant Pharisees Are Rejected (8:11-13)

• The Unbelieving Disciples Are Challenged (8:14-21)

IN WHAT AREAS OF MY LIFE...

1. ...do I fail to trust in Jesus’ sufficiency?

2. ...do I trust in my own strength and sufficiency?

3. ...do I fail to submit to Jesus’ authority?

4. In what ways, or in what areas of my life, do I fail to trust in Jesus’ sovereign power over me, and over all things?

Communion Reflection Questions:

• In what ways, or in what areas of my life, do I sense my own hard-heartedness?

• Do I fail to trust in Jesus’ sufficiency?

• Do I trust too much in my own strength? Do I fail to submit to Jesus’ authority?

• Do I fail to trust in Jesus’ sovereign power and control?

Discussion questions:

1. What is your response to the impatience Jesus demonstrates toward the Pharisees (8:11-13)? How does that impatience reveal clearly his glory and perfection?

2. What evidence do you see of your own hard-heartedness? Consider again the diagnostic questions we looked at on Sunday:

   a)  In what ways, or in what areas of my life, do I fail to trust in Jesus’ sufficiency?

   b)  In what ways, or in what areas of my life, do I trust in my own strength and sufficiency?

   c)  In what ways, or in what areas of my life, do I fail to submit to Jesus’ authority?

   d)  In what ways, or in what areas of my life, do I fail to trust in Jesus’ sovereign power over me, and over all things?

3. How should we respond to our own hard-heartedness?