1. What do these people have in common?

2. Are you a fan/follower of anyone/anything?
Why do you follow them? List three reasons
(Please write in full sentences!)
EXT: How can you show that you’re a
follower of someone/something?

3. Marks Gospel Discipleship Introduction Date 8th September 2010
By the end of this lesson:
State the meaning of discipleship
Give your opinion with a reason, about the nature of discipleship
Explain why the nature of discipleship, as shown in the call of the first disciples, is important for Christians today
What is a disciple?

4. You need help repairing the vandalised skate park!
Which four people would you choose?
What qualities would you look for in the people you choose?

5. Jesus had to choose 12 people to be his disciples:
What duties do you think a disciple would have needed to perform during Jesus time?
Why do you think Jesus needed to do this? Do you think it took Jesus long to decide who his twelve followers were going to be?
Because the destiny of the world and the fate of all men would rest on their shoulders. That Jesus’ mission would be carried out by ordinary people. He chose people who could relate to people around them.

6. Jesus told them that they would be ‘fishers of men’?
All should answer Q2 and Q3
Most should answer Q2, 3 and 4
Some should answer Q2, 3, 4 and 5

7. Follow me, follow me, leave your home and family, Leave your fishing nets and boats upon the shore. Leave the seed that you have sown, leave the crops that you have grown, leave the people you have known and follow me.

8. Q1. What does the passage tell you about the nature of ‘discipleship’?
Healthy people don’t need doctors! Explain what this means “For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." 

9. After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. "The time has come," he said. "The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!"  As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. "Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men." At once they left their nets and followed him.
 When he had gone a little farther, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John in a boat, preparing their nets. Without delay he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.
Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector's booth. "Follow me," Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him.  While Jesus was having dinner at Levi's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the "sinners" and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: "Why does he eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"
 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

10. “For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
Healthy people don’t need doctors!

11. ROLE PLAY!

12. Mark’s Gospel Introduction Discipleship Conflict and Argument
The Nature of Discipleship
The Cost of Discipleship
Conflict and Argument
Death and Resurrection
Who is Jesus