Church and Religion: 2021.05.16_kids
My text: Mark 6:14-29
Sermon Title: Clash of the Kingdoms
Sermon Q & A
Intro
(1) What do we have to do if we want to read the bible well?
(2) What is this brilliant literary technique called in movies?
(3) What does Mark accomplish by telling his story in this way?
Strategic Location
(4) Why is Mark's lingering over John the Baptist's death a strange thing for Mark to do?
(5) What does the strange collision of these two events - John the Baptist's death and Jesus' sending of the aposltes - suggest?
(6)What does the location of this text tell us?
Theme #1: Messianic Identity
(7) What is one of the main questions Mark poses in his narrative?
(8) What are we supposed to do as Mark's audience?
(9) Why does Mark intentionally link ch. 6 & ch. 8 together?
Theme #2: Political Hostility
(10) What does Mark uniquely highlight?
(11) What movement has Jesus been building?
(12) What is at stake on the cross?
