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Have you ever arranged to meet someone for the first time, only to miss them because you expected someone who looked quite different? But more serious would be to miss God Himself, just because He didn't look like we expected...
This is exactly what happens in the second half of Mark's Gospel. Jesus is the King. But He comes to serve and suffer, not to fight political battles. He is Israel's Messiah. But He comes to judge those who believe they are already God's people. He is the promised Rescuer, but He can't even seem to save himself. Rejected by religious leaders, deserted by His followers, it seems everyone is missing who He really is.
Could we make the same mistake as the people of Jesus' day? This Good Book Guide will help you to know and understand Jesus, just as Mark knew Him—nothing that people expected, but more than any of us could hope for.
As group coordinator I have found the Good Book group studies a useful foundation for our discussions. We are a group of established believers so I add as much cultural (including the spiritual state of the people being discussed), contextual and economic information as I can gather. Sometimes I need it all, but that’s been good for me, too.
I was happy to find the good book website and the rich choice of Bible study material. I ordered several study guides and other material. As Lent was approaching, I chose to start with this seven week study on the Servant King. Mark has always been my favourite Gospel. To go through 8 chapters in seven weeks is a challenge. especially for our study group. However, in the end it seems to work out surprisingly well. I use the study guide together with two other resources to put together the study framework. On its own, I find the study guide ...lacking depth, and some parts would definitely need more background material. But all in all, I am grateful to have found this material and will continue to use more of the material of this series in the future.
Good study material. However I felt study 4 was unhelpful and I rewrote the material under the heading of the Hidden Kingdom rather than the Hidden King. The passage raises some really difficult issues and I thought the set study didn't really tackle them in the best way; indeed Jesus isn't a hidden king, but the coming of it could be described as secret. Happy to let you have my study questions and notes if that would help if you thought to rewrite that one.
