Generous God, Generous People

Tradition has it that Mark's Gospel was written to sustain Christians in Rome during persecution and certainly the cost of discipleship is a key theme of his Gospel, This small group study explores the challenge to our discipleship around money in four passages from Mark. The Feeding of the 5000 speaks of God's abundance in the midst of scarcity whilst the Widow's Mite challenges us to consider just living as well as generous giving. Peter's Confession, 'you are the Christ' is the turning point in Mark's Gospel and opens up Jesus' teaching on the cost of discipleship and the final study asks how we love both God and neighbour with all that we have, including our money. The personal daily devotional readings are a rich companion to this group material. Hard copy materials can be ordered from the diocesan website and the free downloads are also available there.