Mark Book Assignment

Hey Girls,

Here is your next blog assignment, due Saturday 9/5/09 by midnight:

1. Read page 317 in your textbook

2. Answer the following questions:

a. Why is Mark considered a book for “readers with short attention spans”?

b. What does Mark open up with (rather than a family tree or the birth of Jesus)?

c. What does Mark 1:7-8 say?

d. “Then Jesus took off to work”…doing what?

3. Read pages 318-319 “The Messiah’s Dream Team” and answer the following questions:

a. Why do people recognize Jesus as a rabbi?

b. What happened at the Sea of Galilee?

c. What did Jesus offer to make these fishermen?

d. What did Andrew hear Jesus call John the Baptist?

e. What did tax collectors do in Jesus’ time?

f. Tell me about the “company” Jesus “keeps”.

g. List out Jesus’ “team” – according to Mark 3.

4. Read page 323 “How God’s Garden Grows” and answer the following questions:

a. How big is a mustard seed?

b. What is the Mishnah?

c. What are the smallest seeds on record so far?

d. How does God’s kingdom “start small” and “grow large”?