I am praying for you just now. I am praying that as you teach this lesson to your group that the Holy Spirit will visit and grace you with an awareness of your selfishness. This is the beginning of change. We must see the problem before we are open to a solution. They had already given up everything to follow Jesus.
Children are a lot of things.
In Matthew 18 Jesus admonishes us to be like children. In Matthew 20, he gives another admonition. As we read verse 17 - 28, look for what Jesus asks us to be like. Yet, the disciples did not get it. In this passage we have the mother of two disciples making a request.