Don’t forget: One week from today is our monthly community night where our life groups gather together over a meal or activity! Please spend some time as a group deciding what you want to do. 

Please pray for who in your life God wants you to invite, and try to find an opportunity this week to invite them if you haven't yet!

1. The Pharisees had a "prove it" attitude with Jesus. Have you ever asked God to "prove it" when you've been struggling in life?
2. Sam said that sometimes material needs make us forget that Jesus is always with us. What material items or needs in your life tend to be a distraction for you?
3. What do you turn to or where do you go for comfort when you face a challenging life situation?

READ MARK 8:11-21, THEN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW

1. What does this passage tell me about God and about people?
2. If I believe today's teaching is from God and that He loved me so much He sent Jesus to die for me, what is the appropriate way to respond in my everyday life?
3. Who can I talk to more about this or share this with?

Spend time sharing prayer requests as a group, and close your time in prayer together.

• Mark 8:11-21 (NIV) -
  The Pharisees came and began to question Jesus. To test him, they asked him for a sign from heaven. 12 He sighed deeply and said, “Why does this generation ask for a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to it.” 13 Then he left them, got back into the boat and crossed to the other side.
  
  14 The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat. 15 “Be careful,” Jesus warned them. “Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and that of Herod.”
  
  16 They discussed this with one another and said, “It is because we have no bread.”
  
  17 Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them: “Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? 18 Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember? 19 When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?”
  
  “Twelve,” they replied.
  
  20 “And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?”
  
  They answered, “Seven.”
  
  21 He said to them, “Do you still not understand?”