Missional Community Questions:

1. Reread Mark 7:1-13. If possible, listen to the sermon(s) again.

2. Looking back over this sermon and this sermon series, how has God convicted your heart, stirred your affections for Jesus, drawn you closer to Him? How has the Word challenged, confused, or made you ask questions?

3. WEEKLY QUESTION: Who Is This? In what ways were your views of Jesus challenged, changed, or reinforced by this weeks sermon and text? In what ways have your thoughts about Jesus changed as you have matured in your faith?

4. How did this weeks sermon help you to take Jesus more seriously?

5. What do you see as todays modern day ‘hand washing’, meaning what mentality/behavior/actons do the ‘ultra religious try to heap upon the actual commands of God?

6. Why is obedience an absolutely essential part of a mature Christians life? And what makes legalism so dangerous?

7. How would you, in your own words, explain the difference between moral law and ceremonial law and why we do adhere to one while we don’t to the other?

8. In what area of your life do you see legalistic tendencies pop up the most? Why in that area? And why does it seem so natural? How do we war against it in our day to day lives?