Why we want to be a pitiful church

Mark 10:46-52

Big Ideas

• This story is our clearest picture of discipleship
• Discipleship isn't morals or knowledge. It's sitting down and crying out for help from Jesus.
• Mercy is everything
• The only people who receive mercy are the pitiful, the needy, the desperate.
• That is where we need to practice being.
• The people around Jesus tried to quiet the blind man, to keep him from Jesus.
• The more we experience mercy, the more merciful we become. This is following Jesus.

Questions

• What do you think Jesus wants from you?
• What is discouraging you from crying out to Jesus? What thought? What voice? What fear?
• Have you ever experienced people around Jesus (Christians) trying to keep you from Jesus?
• What would change if you started constantly shouting for mercy?
• Have you decided to not pray for something because it's "unrealistic"?

Try This

• Ask yourself what you need from God that you can't do for yourself.
• Ask a friend what they need from God that they can't do for themselves.
• Ask God for those things.