Mark: Living the Way of Jesus in the World

By Tracy Cotterell

The revelation of God in Jesus Christ ignites desire to live his way in the world. Resurrection power fuels it.

Part of LICC's Gateway Seven series, this small group study explores how Mark, the shortest of the gospels, invites you to immerse yourself in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus and consider his life-changing announcement that the kingdom of God has come.

Set out in six easy-to-follow sessions, this is a brilliant Bible study on Mark that is packed full of astute questions, mini-features and contemporary stories which will draw you into Mark's remarkable account of the astounding person of Jesus and help you dig deeper into the radical implications of his joyful news for all of life today.

Mark is an ideal Bible study for small groups looking to really get the most out of the beloved gospel, but it can also be used individually to support your discipleship in everyday life. It can be read on its own, or it can be used alongside the other volumes in LICC's Gateway Seven series to open up the riches of all of Scripture for the whole of life.

Hope-filled and healing, disruptive and demanding, love-growing and fear-beating, this is the way of King Jesus you're invited to live, Monday through Sunday.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IVP
• Release date: Oct 21, 2021
• ISBN: 9781789743678

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About the author

Tracy Cotterell is a former advertising planning director and served LICC’s mission for sixteen years, latterly as Managing Director. She has degrees in theology from London School of Theology and Redcliffe College, and is completing her doctoral programme at Portland Seminary in the States. Tracy is LICC’s Senior Mission Associate, a Board Director of the Evangelical Alliance, and engaged in the development of disciplemaking models for today’s culture. She’s married to John, and they have three adult children.

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‘But what about you?’ he asked. ‘Who do you say I am?’

Peter answered,

‘You are the Messiah.’

Mark 8:29

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First published 2021

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Paperback ISBN: 978–1–78974–366–1

Ebook ISBN: 978–1–78974–367–8

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Illustrations by Michael Ridley

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Inter-Varsity Press publishes Christian books that are true to the Bible and that communicate the gospel, develop discipleship, and strengthen the church for its mission in the world.

IVP originated within the Inter-Varsity Fellowship, now the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship, a student movement connecting Christian Unions in universities and colleges throughout Great Britain, and a member movement of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. Website: www.uccf.org.uk. That historic association is maintained, and all senior IVP staff and committee members subscribe to the UCCF Basis of Faith.

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Contents

Introduction

Making the Most of Mark

Session 1 | Announcing Revolution (Mark 1:1–15)

Session 2 | Demonstrating Authority (Mark 4:35–41)

Gareth’s story

Session 3 | Revealing Identity (Mark 8:27–38)

Session 4 | Challenging Allegiance (Mark 10:17–31)

Lexi’s story

Session 5 | Transforming Power (Mark 14:32–52)

Joy’s story

Session 6 | Inviting Trust (Mark 16:1–8)

Further reading on Mark

Other resources from LICC

About LICC

Features

What are the Gospels?

Jesus and the kingdom of God

Making sense of Jesus’ parables

Discipleship in Mark

The gospel and its implications for all of life today

Introduction

The Gateway Seven Bible Study Series

We don’t approach a novel in the same way we tackle a legal document. We don’t read poetry in the same way we might read a letter from a friend. So, we don’t read the 66 books of the Bible as if they were all the same kind of writing. Story, song, law, letter, and more, all make up the rich repository of writing that together is God’s word to us.

For The Gateway Seven series we’ve selected seven books of the Bible that each represent a different kind of writing. The mini-features sprinkled through the studies, together with the questions suggested for discussion, invite you to explore each book afresh in a way that’s sensitive to its genre as well as to the concerns of the book itself.

Each study engages with a different kind of writing. However, each one in the series has been crafted with the same central desire: to offer a gateway to a deeper love of God’s word and richer insights into its extraordinary implications for all of life, Monday through Sunday.

‘May your kingdom come – on earth as in heaven’, Jesus taught us to pray. May your kingdom come in our homes and places of work and service. May your kingdom come at the school gate as well as in the sanctuary. May your kingdom come in the hydrotherapy pool, in