How to Read the Bible Like a Human Being | Workbook Three: Mark 2:14 - 3:15

Revitalize your bible study simply by asking a whole different type of questions. Take the story of The Man with the Withered Hand: what did it feel like for the disabled man (who has lived in one small village his whole life) to have all his friends and neighbors give a thumbs-down to his healing? In an Honor/Shame culture, what did it mean for him to get dissed in that way? And consider this: we often think Jesus knows everything before it happens. But if that is so, why did Jesus invite the guy up front knowing he'd get totally embarrassed! Did this situation  turn out in a way Jesus wasn't expecting? And what does that tell us about Jesus' humanity?How to Read the Bible Like a Human Being is about engaging scripture with the emotional brain instead of the rational, and trying to grasp what Jesus experienced instead of what he taught. Volume Three covers Mark 2:14 - 3:15, and includes participant materials for twelve weeks of in-depth study on four passages: The Call of Levi: He h