ENGAGE
- How do you react to severe weather? Is there a memorable storm you’ve ever been in?
READ
- Read or summarize the passage.
- Share any observations or questions from the passage or the sermon.
REFLECT
- How did the disciples respond to the events of that night? What didn’t they understand
about the loaves and how does that impact their response here?
- How might we rightly be encouraged by the disciples’ slowness to understand who Jesus
was? How might we rightly be convicted by their slowness to understand?
- How does the reaction of the people in Gennesaret provide a contrast to what happened on the boat with the disciples?
What do you think the point of the contrast is?
- How do the following parts of the story reveal Jesus’ identity?
○ walking on water (Job 9:8,11)
○ passing by the disciples
(Exodus 33:19, 22, 34:6)
○ saying “it is I” (Exodus 3:14)
RESPOND
- Why do you think Jesus “went up on the mountain to pray” after sending the disciples and the crowds away? How can this inform our own prayer lives?
- Read Colossians 1:15-20. In what ways does it comfort you knowing that Jesus is God, the Great I Am, the Creator and Sustainer of all things?
- What is ultimately necessary for someone to truly recognize Jesus as God and begin to live out the implications of that in their lives (see 2 Corinthians 4:6)? How should this impact our work of evangelism?
PRAY
As you pray, pray Colossians 1:9-14.
