Discussion Promts 4.1-34 part 2

Community Building

• Choose externally focused activity and calendar your plans to carry out this plan. Pleas share your plan with the other MYM leaders so we can pray for each other’s group activity.

The Text: Mark 4.1-34, page 7.12-9.11

• Ask someone who enjoys reading aloud to read these verses.
• What impacted us from Lou’s second sermon on this parable, focusing on responsiveness? 

Discussion Questions:

• Review your discussion from last week about the parable of the sower and explanation.
• Pass out the secret worksheet and discuss the questions on the worksheet and any other insights that really strikes you.
• Take plenty of time to wrestle with this section!
• Discuss a one-sentence summary for this section.
• Discuss how this summary expands your understanding of the parable of the sower.
• What is the main point of the parable of the growing seed? Of the mustard seed?

Application reflections

• How are you doing on your responsiveness to Jesus? Which of the responsiveness indicators describes your experience: having, and getting more? Of not having, and losing ground?
• How is it a comfort and encouragement that the kingdom grows on its own?
• How might your externally focused activity be like the mustard seed? Or the growing seed? 

Pray