> **The shortest Gospel. The fastest. And the most honest book in the New Testament about the men who followed Jesus.**

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> No genealogy, no manger — fourteen verses into Mark, a carpenter is walking down a beach telling working men to drop their nets. What follows is ten weeks th**rough the Gospel of Mark for men who are done performing: men who compare, who want the best seat, who have fallen asleep when it mattered, and who want to follow Jesus anyway.

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> This is a **no-homework study**. Nothing to prepare, nothing to fill out. Each week's session is done together, out loud — a short reflection, the passage read aloud, seven questions worth arguing about, one concrete practice, and a closing prayer.

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> **Each of the ten sessions includes:** a check-in question that gets every voice in the group early; a reflection that carries Mark's fast-moving story; the key passage printed in full (World English Bible); the big idea in one paragraph; seven discussion questions built for men, not seminarians; one practice for the week; and a written prayer.

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> At the center of the study is Jesus' announcement — not "get saved and coast," but *the Kingdom of God is now within reach*. Following him is an apprenticeship: a life you learn, not a box you check. Ten weeks in Mark will not hand your men another standard to fail. It hands them a King who is competent so they don't have to be — and a group of failures he never gave up on.

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> Works equally well for a men's small group meeting weekly or for one man reading on his own with a journal. Grab a friend, open Mark, and drop the nets.