Friday -Mark 6:1-6

The Bible is relevant to our lives today. Paul tells us in 2 Timothy 3:16-17 that Scripture is useful for showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God’s way. This week's challenge to to ask five questions about the day's passage to help us discover what it means for our lives and how we can put that truth into action.

Not every question will fit with every passage. But by asking the questions you are allowing the Bible to strengthen your life and walk with God.

1. What have you learned from today's passage?
2. What behaviour is it asking you to avoid?
3. What promise is it asking you to claim?
4. What command is it asking you to obey?
5. What sin is it asking you to confess?

Mark 6:1-6The Message (MSG)

6 1-2 He left there and returned to his hometown. His disciples came along. On the Sabbath, he gave a lecture in the meeting place. He made a real hit, impressing everyone. “We had no idea he was this good!” they said. “How did he get so wise all of a sudden, get such ability?”

3 But in the next breath they were cutting him down: “He’s just a carpenter—Mary’s boy. We’ve known him since he was a kid. We know his brothers, James, Justus, Jude, and Simon, and his sisters. Who does he think he is?” They tripped over what little they knew about him and fell, sprawling. And they never got any further.

4-6 Jesus told them, “A prophet has little honor in his hometown, among his relatives, on the streets he played in as a child.” Jesus wasn’t able to do much of anything there—he laid hands on a few sick people and healed them, that’s all. He couldn’t get over their stubbornness. He left and made a circuit of the other villages, teaching.