Community Group Discussion Questions

The Gospel of Mark

Mark 10:13-16

These questions are based on Mark 10:13-16 and the sermon preached on 2/16/25 at Crossroads Church in Turlock, CA.

Please don’t feel the need to get through all the questions. The goal is not to get through all of them, but rather to have a meaningful time of discussion and encouragement.

Read Mark 10:13-16

1. What stood out to you from the sermon or any of the Bible passages from Sunday?

2. Read v.13. What does the response of the Disciples to people bringing “little children” to Jesus say about their heart attitudes? What are ways we can reveal the same attitudes towards others?

3. Read v.14. What makes a person angry says a lot about a person. What makes Jesus angry in this verse? What does it say about Him and what He values? What should we learn and apply from this?

4. Read v.15. A very young child is used as an illustration for what it takes to enter the Kingdom of God. What is it about infants/toddlers that reflects the reality of someone turning to Jesus? Knowing how children were viewed in the ancient world, what does Jesus’ embrace of children communicate to us? How should that affect our posture towards children as individual Christians and as a Church?

5. Read v.16. What does the way Jesus embraced the children reveal about the character of God and the way of life in God’s Kingdom? How should this be reflected in the life of the Church and the personal lives of Christians?

6. Take time to pray for the Children of Crossroads Church. Pray that they would come to faith in Jesus early in life so they can live long lives of faith in God’s Kingdom for His glory and the good of the world.