Conversation Starters

1. Read Mark 3:20-35.

2. Who is the strongman in Jesus’ parable? Who is the thief who plunders the house? What is the meaning of the parable?

3. How does Jesus redefine family in this passage? In what way does that challenge or encourage you?

4. How does it make you feel to know that you are part of God's family? How does God's family give you identity and purpose?

Title: Jesus Surprises
Reference: Mark 3:20-35
Speaker: Ben Beasley, BenB@cckc.church

I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and when we reached the zoo I did. Yet I had not exactly spent the journey in thought. Nor in great emotion. “Emotional” is perhaps the last word we can apply to some of the most important events. It was more like when a man, after a long sleep, still lying motionless in bed, becomes aware that he is now awake.~ C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. ~ C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Option #1: Jesus is out of his mind / Lunatic.

Option #2: Jesus is in league with the devil / Liar

Option #3: Jesus is the Master of everything / Lord