1. Other Side Do you have an “other side” memory (or memories)?
Whether “happy” or “horrible” consider your experience…
How do you sense God was (or was not) present?
If you sensed God was present, who did you understand God to be?

2. Other side > Old Testament
1 Samuel 14:1-15
Why does it seem that “other side” is often a factor in war?
1 Samuel 26:13-18
What type of “other side” is this story?
2 Samuel 2:12-17

3. Other Side > NT
Matthew 8: Now when Jesus saw great crowds around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side.
Mark 4:35 –41 35On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go across to the other side.” 
Luke 8: One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, "Let us go across to the other side of the lake." So they put out…

4. Other Side > NT
Matthew 8:28-9:1 28When he came to the other side, to the country of Gadarenes, two demoniacs coming out of the tombs met him. 9:1 And after getting into a boat he crossed the sea and came to his own town.
Mark 5:1-21 1They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes 21When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered around him; and he was by the sea.

5. Session Seven: Other side
Matthew 14:13-21
Mark 6:30-44
Luke 9:10-17
John 6:1-10 1After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. 

6. Other Side > NT
Matthew 14: Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. Mark 6: Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd.
John 6: The next day the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there. 

7. Other Side > NT
Matthew 16:5-21 5When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread. Mark 8: And he left them, and getting into the boat again, he went across to the other side.

8. Session Seven > What do you think?
What characteristics about “the other side” makes it a fitting place for God to be at work?
In what ways is “the other side” a metaphor for how God is at work in our lives today?
What has been the work of God on “the other side?”

9. Session Seven > Where are the Cities?
Find the cities:
Look for mound/hill = tell – Arabic; tel – Hebrew
Layer of debris from different historical periods
Near the wadi (Arabic)
Stream or watercourse that is seasonal