Proper 21
Series B
Mark 9:38–50
24 September 2018
Collect for Proper 21 Lord,
thank You for Your work through the lives of others. Lead me to welcome those
miracles and mercies that You show through every one of Your people. Grant
us the lasting faith that can persevere through every trial. Empty our heads of
anything that competes with You, and let us hold firmly to You eternally.
What scandals have you heard about in the past month? How did they affect you?
What is John’s worry in v. 38? “John said to HIM, "TEACHER, we saw someone expelling demons in YOUR name and we were forbidding him because he was not following us”. “He's not following us, not one of us...casting out demons correctly.”
Is this man a part of the 70 or perhaps a follower of John the Baptist who was beheaded earlier in Mark's Gospel?
What is Jesus’ response, and why?
What happens when the scandal within the Church is caused - by the good of non-believers?
What
similarity do you see to the passage from Numbers in our Old Testament lesson?
This passage
contains some of Jesus’ most spectacular hyperbole. What advice does He give?
To what extent
would you apply it?
Does it seem to
be connected with John’s complaint, or not?
How does it fit
this point in the journey of faith?
What does it
mean to “have salt in yourselves”?
Why was that
important for Jesus’ followers?
Compare and
contrast this passage to Jesus’ other statement, “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with
me scatters.” Matthew 12:30, Luke
11:23
A prayer for
God to guide us—Direct us, O Lord, in
all our doings with Your most gracious favor, and further us with Your
continual help, that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in You we may
glorify Your holy name and finally, by Your mercy, obtain eternal salvation;
through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Sources
Prayers Lutheran
Service Book © 2006 Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis
Luther’s Seal ©
Higher Things
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