How good is the good news of Jesus?

This could be a big one (forgiveness, friendship with God, life to the full, life forever, etc, etc, etc) but I've just been amazed at how people can choose to follow Jesus and not realise how amazing grace really is and that God's forgiveness is total, complete and permanent.  If you think following Jesus means you still need to work hard to earn God's love and not lose his forgiveness, think again because it's much better than that!  Am I making it up?  No!  It's all in the Bible if we want to go looking (and we should - especially if we say we follow Jesus)...

Ephesians 1:3-14
Ephesians 2:1-10

The passages above are an incredible list of all the amazing things God has given everyone who has put their trust in Jesus.  Have a good read and try and take it all in!  It's better than you think and it doesn't depend on you!  There's nothing you can do to make God love you any more or any less than he does right now and if you've put your faith in Jesus, he's given you so much and it's a done deal!  Jesus has saved you and there's no going back!

Loving that.

Mark 6:6-12 Bible study questions

  1. Jesus is sending his disciples on a mission.  How is the mission organised and what does he give them for the job (v7)?
  2. The mission would involve some of the stuff Jesus had been doing.  Have a scan back through the previous stories in Mark.  What kind of things was Jesus sending them to do?
  3. What does he tell them to take with them (v8-9)?  Why do you think this was all they needed?
  4. If the welcome was good, what should they do (v10)?  Why do you think this is?
  5. If the welcome was bad, what should they do and why (v11)?
  6. Miracles were part of it but what was the main focus of the mission (v12)?
  7. What can we learn from this about our mission if we're following Jesus?  
  8. How is our mission going?  
  9. What kind of things should we be saying/doing?  What kind of questions might help?  
  10. What should we be praying for?