This Advent season, The Vine is engaging a series called EMBODIED ADVENT. In this sermon, Mark continues our theme and discusses the embodied experience of emotions. Exploring Simeon and Mary’s experiences in Luke 2, we see that beholding our emotions and longings before God creates a capacity to behold our Savior.

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Discussion Questions:

1. To begin, how was your experience with the daily prompts? Did any come naturally for you, or problematic?

2. Would you consider yourself an emotional person? As you review your life, how would you depict your relationship with emotions?

3. What significance is it that Jesus experienced all the emotions natural to the human experience, and did so without sinning?

4. Read Luke 2: 22-35. What do you imagine the experience of waiting produced in Simeon?

5. When you consider Simeon’s words to Mary (vv34-35), how did these words come true? Why might Simeon speak these over Mary?

6. Why did God create us as emotional beings? What is the good in being emotional?

7. How can we honor our emotions without having them fully control us?

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