Figs
Healthy faith produces fruit.
What’s your favorite kind of fruit?
Read: Mark 11:11-14
How would you have felt if you were one of the disciples seeing Jesus curse this fig tree?
Read: Mark 11:15-18
What’s Jesus’ main complaint against the Temple in his day?
What are the ways in which our churches today can miss the mark of being a “house of prayer for all nations?
Read: Mark 11:19-21
Compare the fig tree to the temple. What are the points of similarity?
Read: 1 Samuel 16:7
In what ways are you tempted to judge people/churches by their outward appearance?
In what ways do you put up a façade of spirituality?
What fruit do you see God producing in your life?
What fruit do you wish God would produce more of?
Read: Matthew 7:16-20
Pray: Ask God to help you grow that fruit!