09 Nov
1. Read Matthew 12: 46-50 as a group… what resonates, draws your attention or surprises you about this passage?
2. Discuss what this passage means?
3. How do we live into this passage as a congregation?
1. Read Matthew 12: 46-50… If you were hearing this for the first time, what would you think? What would be your response? What questions would you want Jesus to clarify?
2. How do we live into this passage as a church?
What things are you most curious about God doing in the world? In your life? In your family? In your relationships? In your heart?
What thoughts would have crossed your mind if you were Mary? Joseph? A family member? Town’s person? High religious leader? Others?
What are the the implications or consequences that Mary would have faced for her response of, “May it be so.”
Waiting Expectantly For the Arrival of God: we get the Gospels from Mary’s perspective…
According to this reading, what compels God to send the messiah?