This month at W2W we will be looking at the three time Jesus announces that he will die and rise again. 

Join Liz as she shares her testimony of followingJesus 

Listen to Kaete introduce us to the passage

and then take some time to think and chat through these questions below.  (bold ones are the priority if you are short on time)

Zoom link for the 7:30 W2W meet up is found here

W2W Questions for March Meeting 2021:

Passages: Mark 8. 31-33, Mark 9.30-35, 10.32-45

Discussion Questions:

A few general questions to kickstart:

1) Have a quick brainstorm! In what ways would you say that Jesus’ way of defining greatness is counter-cultural?

Mark 8.31-33

2) Just considering these three passages, why do you think Jesus tells his disciples in advance what’s going to happen to Him?

3) What do you make of Peter’s response to rebuke Jesus? Why do you think he does that?

4) We aren’t told what Peter says. But how might we infer that he was setting his mind on man’s interests, not God’s?

5) What do you make of Jesus’ response? What does he mean by calling Peter Satan?

6) Are there times/situations in our lives when we might be tempted to rebuke God? How can our understanding of who God is steer us towards a different response when God does things/says things we don’t quite understand?

7) Personal reflection question - are there areas in our lives where we are ‘setting our minds’ (eg focussing our thoughts, attentions, worries, concerns) on our own interests, not God’s? Here’s an even greater challenge: are we letting these things so distract, so preoccupy our minds, that they inhibit our ability to hear the Lord? Is our fixation on some concern so consuming that there’s just no space to hear from God?

Mark 9. 30-35

8) So often in the Gospels (following the example of His heavenly Father throughout the Hebrew Scriptures), Jesus asks his followers questions, even when He already knows the answer. Why do you think he does that?

9) Why do you think the disciples are afraid to tell him what they were discussing on the road? Are we ever afraid to answer God?

10)Why do you think the Kingdom of God functions this way - first being last, last being first, greatness = serving. What does this kind of greatness look like for us -
individually, but also as a church? More importantly, what does this teach us about our King?


Mark 10. 32-45

11)What do you make of James and John’s request? Why do you think they asked this?

12)V41: Why does James and John’s request upset the other disciples? If you have time, take a quick look at James 3.13-18. Contrast the fruit of the ‘wisdom from below’ versus the ‘wisdom from above’!

13)Jesus concludes his point about Kingdom greatness by referring to his own coming suffering. Why do you think he does this? How does that encourage us, as His followers?

Final question:

14)Heart check - what preoccupies your thoughts? What do you ask God for? How might Kingdom-mindedness transform some of those things?