The story of Jesus is the most epic story ever told. It’s not a made-up story. It’s true. And it’s life changing!
Over the next 16 days, we are going to read through Mark’s account of Jesus’ Epic Story. You may have been following Jesus for a long time; you may have recently started following Jesus; or you may be still checking Jesus out. Wherever you’re at, I hope you’ll join us on this journey!
These short vids will help you to find your feet and give you a brief overview of each chapter in Mark’s biography of Jesus.
Today we kick off in chapter 1. Check out the first sentence: “The beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” (Mark 1:1)
If you hang out with Christians for long enough, you’ll begin to hear this word gospel a lot! It might feel like a religiousy word, but it simply means “good news” or “amazing news”.
The amazing news of the Bible and Christianity is JESUS. This epic story is all about Jesus Christ. Christ is not Jesus’ last name, but his title, meaning “KING”
And so the key thing to do as we read through this story is to work out what we learn about Jesus, and what it is about Jesus that makes his story so epic and amazing.
In this opening chapter we already begin to see Jesus do some incredible things:
- He teaches people about God’s Kingdom
- He drives an evil spirit out of a man
- He heals all sorts of sicknesses and conditions
- He already has people drop everything to follow him
Jesus says in verse 15 “The time has come… The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!”
As we read through these chapters the challenge for us is to not just hear the message but to repent and believe it! Repent means we turn away from our old life and towards God and believe that Jesus really is the King!
I really hope that you’ll stick around for the next 16 days as we check out Jesus Epic Story. I’m praying for you personally, for everyone who watches these videos and joins in this adventure, that YOUR life will be changed by Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Reflection Questions:
- What do we learn about who Jesus is?
- What do we learn about what Jesus came to do?
- How do people respond to Jesus?
- How do you think you should respond to Jesus?