Saturday -Mark 9:33-37

"Do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says." -James 1:22

This week we are using different methods of reading to change our perspective. Different ways of reading gives us the opportunity to notice different details. The challenge is to use at least three different reading methods.

Here are six ways you can read this passage:

1) Read Mark 9:33-37 out loud and slowly. What did you hear?
2) Read Mark 9:33-37 silently and slowly. What did you see?
3) Write out a portion of the passage. What did you feel?
4) Listen to Mark 9. What did you hear?
5) Read Mark 9:33-37 in NIV? What did you see?
6) Read Mark 9:33-37 in NLT? What did you see? 

Questions about your reading:

What main insight do you have about this passage after reading it different ways?
After reading different ways, which method did you prefer? Why?
What are some other ways you could read Scripture this week?

Mark 9:33-37The Message (MSG)

33 They came to Capernaum. When he was safe at home, he asked them, “What were you discussing on the road?”

34 The silence was deafening—they had been arguing with one another over who among them was greatest.

35 He sat down and summoned the Twelve. “So you want first place? Then take the last place. Be the servant of all.”

36-37 He put a child in the middle of the room. Then, cradling the little one in his arms, he said, “Whoever embraces one of these children as I do embraces me, and far more than me—God who sent me.”