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This
chapter contains three significant healing stories. Have you ever
known of a sick person getting better after health professionals
told them they would not get better? What are some possible
explanations?
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There is a
woman in this chapter who was considered “unclean” because of her
chronic hemorrhage. What do you know about why she was seen as
“unclean”? How does Jesus treat her? What would be some parallels
today with people who are seen as outcasts?
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Who would
Jesus exclude today?
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Tim Hansel
in his book “You Gotta Keep Dancin” says he believes there is a
difference in being cured and being healed. What do you think?
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How would
you define a miracle? Are the miracles only confined to the Bible?
Do they still happen? Is a miracle a suspension of the natural order
or something else?
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How would
you interpret these three stories in Mark 5 to someone who does not
believe in miracles or paranormal healing?
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When Jesus
heals the man who says his name is “legion”, he has to rearrange
some things in the man’s life for him to be whole? What would Jesus
want to reorder and rearrange in your life?
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One of the
most important things that Jesus does at the beginning of chapter
five of Mark is to take the disciples into hostile territory to be
with people who Jews thought were infidels—or who they thought were
radically different from and inferior to them. If you imitated Jesus
example of reaching out to the “other side”, who would you go and be
with?
