How to Read the Bible Like a Human Being | Leader’s Guide Three: Mark 2:14 - 3:15

Stop studying scripture with half a brain! How to Read the Bible Like a Human Being is about engaging scripture with the emotional brain instead of the usual rational approach, trying to grasp what Jesus experienced instead of what he taught. This story-based approach culminates with each person writing their own narrative of the passage, through the eyes of one of the characters. And it includes a bonus: instructions for hosting an authentic, first-century meal in a triclinium (‘three couch room’), as Levi would have done after he joined Jesus’ team. There’s no better way to visualize Jesus’ world than to reenact it!Volume Three covers Mark 2:14 - 3:15, and includes leader materials for twelve weeks of in-depth study on four passages: The Call of Levi: He had extorted from the disciples’ families for years. Then things get even more awkward when he invites the rabbi’s team to a party with his riff-raff friends. Harvesting Grain on the Sabbath: You’d have to be really famished to m