Conversation Starters

1. Read Mark 6:1-29.

2. Think about a time you experienced opposition, rejection, or disapproval from others. How did that make you feel? How did you respond?

3. How does Jesus respond to rejection from his hometown? Why do you think he did that?

4. How does he expect his followers to respond to opposition and persecution?

5. What would need to be true for you to have a similar response?

Title: Jesus Commissions
Reference: Mark 6:1-30
Speaker: Jonathan Neef, JonathanN@cckc.church

– Followers of Jesus can Expect Rejection

In the early centuries of the Jesus movement, a witness and a martyr were virtually synonymous. For us in the democratic West, literal death is not an imminent threat, but there is a kind of death involved if we bear witness to Jesus’ gospel – a death to our reputation as cool or sophisticated or on trend, a death to others’ moral estimation of us, a possible death to our career ambitions, and more. ~ John Mark Comer, Practicing the Way, 201

– Followers of Jesus can expect to live on mission

– Followers of Jesus can expect Provision