Session 2

Session 2

Leader Notes

• Send a text reminder to your group(Before the group meets)
• Allow students to introduce each other
• Prepare an icebreaker game or question to build friendship in your group
• Have everyone read the entire chapter, break the chapter up among the students

Read Mark 1

Leader Notes:

• Help students identify the beginning and ends of topics, ideas, stories within the chapter
• Explain how understanding when topics begin and end play a vital role in communication
• Explain how there is a point to talking about specific topics, introducing ideas or stories
• Help students identify the reason why Mark organizes the first chapter the way he does and the indirect point it makes
• Help students to not read into the text and to also remember that Mark is a narrative, meaning the content of the text has specific purpose in the context of the narrative

Sample Discussion Questions:

1.  If this were like a conversation or a paper what verses make up the first topic?

2.  What are the other topic/sections in this chapter?

3.  What is the point of the 1st section?

4.  Mark is trying to tell us something with the information and order he tells the story.  What is Mark implying by the order he presents the information?

Leader notes:

• Ask for prayer requests
• Have each person in the group pray for one other person
• Don’t forget to have fun with your group, think about scheduling a time to hang out in the future
• Record the prayer requests and send them out to the group to help remind them to pray for each other in the week