Mark 12.18-27 Discussion Promts

Introduction
• When was the last time you thought about resurrection from the dead? What brought this thought to your mind?

The Text: Mark 12.18-27 Page 29.14-30.2
• Read the text aloud to each other. Look back over the rest of chapter 11 and 12 to remind ourselves of the context of this story.

Discussion Questions:
• What do you think Moses gave this instruction about a widow marrying back into her deceased husband’s family (Dt. 25.5-6)?
• Discuss Jesus’ diagnosis of why the Sadducees were in error by using this text to support their theological position on resurrection.
• Discuss Jesus’ argument that the I AM story in Ex.3.16 proves that resurrection is true. What is Jesus’ argument? What do you think about Jesus’ basing his understanding of scriptural teaching on resurrection on the tense of the verb ‘to be’?

Application reflections
• How does the fact of the resurrection from the dead impact our daily faith and witness?
• Can you think of any examples where it seems we have constructed theological brick walls on shaky misunderstandings of the Bible?
• How confident are we in the complete trustworthiness of scripture?

Pray