Transformed into his image - Compassionate Mark 6:30-44 – Sept 13^th

Welcome

• What do you like to do when you are really tired at the end of the day?
• If someone interrupts that plan how do you respond?

• It's been a long day, Jesus and the disciples need to rest, but the resting does not seem to last long.
• Contrast the way the disciples looked and the crowd and the way Jesus looked at the crowd.
• Why did Jesus tell the disciples "You give them something to eat"?
• How did the early church show compassion? (look at Acts 3 and 6)
• Jesus models a life lived for others, how are you growing in this?
• How do you interpret this passage for daily living? Are we suppose to stop and care for everyone?
• Have you ever been to tired too be compassionate?
• Every day we are deluged with bad news and requests from charities to help. Have you ever experienced compassion fatigue? How can you overcome this?

• Ask people to write down on separate pieces of paper all the sources of news they have.
• Take some time to be quiet
• Ask people to write down on separate sheets 3 people that they are concerned about who are in trouble or are hurting.
• Lay the second group of names on the ground and then cover them with all the sources of news you have written out.
• Place some worship music in the background and invite God to still your hearts so you can see things from his perspective.
• Slowly remove the sources of news, leaving only the people who you are concerned about.
• Invite the Holy Spirit to prompt you for other people for whom God has compassion that he is highlighting to you.
• Prayer together for the people whose names are on the floor, and for yourselves that you would see with the eyes and compassion of Christ.
• "Lord teach us to see and act with your eyes of compassion"

 Download the full series notes in PDF format here.