Discussion guide
What is the biggest plane, littlest plane you have ever been in?
What is the weirdest plane experience you have ever had?
What do you like to see from the air?
Where is the darkest sky you have ever seen?
Have you ever seen something through someone else's eyes? What?
Would you ever get on a plane with a pilot wearing a parachute? Why why not?
Why does it matter that we shift from looking at things from a human perspective and God’s perspective?
In what ways does the young man act or look that would initiate that he was heaven bound?
Why is it so easy for us to confuse his external look with an internal reality?
In what situations do you use a checklist?
When have you overestimated yourself?
Why do we tend to see ourselves as better than we actually are?
Why is it so hard for the man to give up his riches? Would it have been easier if he had less?
If you knew someone was going to fail, would you intervene? If not in every case, in which situations?
When is a time you so someone so overconfident that it cost them?
Camel - needle. What is unclear about this picture? Why have people tried to find a way out?
The only time Mark uses the expression “Jesus looked” is in this passage. Matthew and Luke use it here also. Why is this the only place in the Gospels that the disciples notice what Jesus is looking at?
What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Mark 8:36
Peter brags about what they have given up to follow Jesus. Why is it an empty brag?
Jesus invites you to see people and the world like he sees the world. If you could look thorugh his eyes what do you think you would see more of? Less of?
What would it have meant if Jesus had asked the young man to give up his great wealth but was not willin