Don’t forget: Two weeks 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 think about how you can reach out and invite them in the next couple of weeks.

Discussion Questions

  1. What is the most painful sacrifice you have ever seen someone make for you or for someone else? What made that sacrifice significant?
  2. When you think of the story of Jesus' crucifixion, what details stand out to you that you remember? 
  3. Why is it significant that a Roman soldier is the first character in the book of Mark to call Jesus the Son of God?

READ MARK 15:33-41, 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.

Scripture

Mark 15:33-41 (NIV) - At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 34 And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”). 35 When some of those standing near heard this, they said, “Listen, he’s calling Elijah.” 36 Someone ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink. “Now leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah comes to take him down,” he said. 37 With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last. 38 The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. 39 And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died, he said, “Surely this man was the Son of God!” 40 Some women were watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joseph, and Salome. 41 In Galilee these women had followed him and cared for his needs. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were also there.