Week 6 OUT: Loving People More
Group Guide Sheet
IN (Loving People More)
1. What were the names of some of your friends growing up? Do you still talk with them now?
2. What’s going on in your life? (thumbs up or down and explain in 1 min or less)
Great job on completing this week’s challenge to hang out and/or eat with others! You’re amazing!
OUT (Loving More People)
3. Any cool & simple moments this week where someone did something nice for you or you for someone else?
UP (People Loved More)
Read: Mark 2:1-12
4. Questions or anything stand out to you from this reading?
5. Any questions or does anything stand out to you from this past week’s message or daily devotions this week?
Prayer
Pray for anything going on and commit to pray for each other this week.
Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man
1 When Jesus returned to Capernaum several days later, the news spread quickly that he was back home. 2 Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room, even outside the door. While he was preaching God’s word to them, 3 four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. 4 They couldn’t bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. Then they lowered the man on his mat, right down in front of Jesus. 5 Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “My child, your sins are forgiven.” 6 But some of the teachers of religious law who were sitting there thought to themselves, 7 “What is he saying? This is blasphemy! Only God can forgive sins!” 8 Jesus knew immediately what they were thinking, so he asked them, “Why do you question this in your hearts? 9 Is it easier to say to the paralyzed man ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or ‘Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk’? 10 So I will prove to you that the Son of Man[a] has the authority on earth to forgive sins.” Then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and said, 11 “Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home!” 12 And the man jumped up, grabbed his mat, and walked out through the stunned onlookers. They were all amazed and praised God, exclaiming, “We’ve never seen anything like this before!”