Often we get caught up in learning how to pray and receive something else, something more. There is always the sense that God has yet to do his "biggest trick" in our lives.
But what about what already is?
Not only are we in Mark as a series, but we find ourselves heading into Easter week. Palm Sunday, when they chanted praise, all the way through to the crucifixion, where the crowds turned and chanted murder instead. Yet God remained true to us, refusing to express and teach us anything less than love. What more could a being possibly need?
Starting with the mundanity of having transportation to get to LifeGroup and having eaten multiple times in the last 24 hours, guiltlessly spend some of your group in gratitude for what is already true. You may choose to do this through good conversation, over communion or silently to yourselves. Regardless, without gratitude it's impossible to understand why we follow Whom we follow. We already have everything we need, and Christ s trying to wake us up to it.
Group time will be successful if everyone leaves less anxious than they arrived.
Read
- Mark 5:1-20
- Discuss the individual and social aspects of this story, and how it relates to our context.
- Note that the man isn't "converted" in the sense we're used to. He is simply given his sanity back, and charged with bragging on God to the measure he personally understands. What is the corollary in your own world?
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