Mark 14:1-9 | Pure Worship

Mark 14:1-9 | Pure Worship
 

1. Pray

   Church of the Week
   City Parish and the Elders
    
   Missionary of the Week
   Hector and Caitlyn Hernandez in Guatemala

2. Accountability: Invite your group to share their successes and failures from the practices of engagement and sharing their experience of following Jesus with others.

3. Opening Discussion Question: Share one of the most memorable and impacting worship times you’ve experienced.

4. Read: Mark 14:1-9

5. Discussion:

   What stuck out to you from the message this week?
   Use the discussion questions to spur on conversation.

6. Apply: Take time to share how each of you will apply these passages of scripture to your lives. 

Scripture Text

Mark 14:1–9 (ESV)
14 It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, 2 for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.” 
3 And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. 4 There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that? 5 For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they scolded her. 6 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 7 For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me. 8 She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial. 9 And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”

 
Discussion Questions:

• Knowing yourself, how do you picture responding if you were in the room when the woman poured out the expensive oil all over Jesus?

• Where do you find yourself most tempted to criticize worship as a waste?

• Talk about each of the Application points and where you need to grow the most:

  • Let Our Worship Be Expressive

  • Let Our Worship Be a Sacrifice

  • Let Our Worship Magnify Jesus

• Spend some time worshipping together

  • Sing a simple chorus Acapella

  • Pray prayers of praise out loud and agree together

  • Read through Psalm 148 as a group and respond to each verse

 
Apply the Scripture to your Life:
Choose one of the application points of worship and share with your group how you plan to walk it out this next week.
 
Cross References:
Psalm 115:4-8
Romans 12:1-2
Romans 8:29
Psalm 34:3-5