GENESIS 2

1. Mission Spot: Making a Plan for “ Go Week”

In two weeks, (following Father’s Day weekend on 6 September), our regular groups will take a break. We want to use that week intentionally, to connect with friends or family who don’t yet know Jesus.

Think about the people you have been praying for over the past few weeks. Is there someone you have been meaning to contact but keep putting off? Is there someone you care about but have struggled to make time for?

Discuss

  1. Who might you intentionally spend time with during the week off?

  2. What could you invite them to do a meal, coffee, walk or another activity?

  3. What has stopped you from organising it already?

Make a plan

Take a moment to choose a person, an activity and a possible day. If appropriate, send them a message this week.

Pray that God would help us follow through and use these ordinary moments to deepen relationships and create opportunities to speak about Jesus.

2. Genesis 2

Opening question

When was a time you experienced homesickness? What triggered it for you?


Read Genesis 2:4–25

  1. What stood out to you from the passage? What questions did it raise?

  2. What picture does this passage give us of the world God made for humanity?

  3. Verse 9 says the trees were “pleasing to the eye and good for food.” Why do you think the passage mentions beauty as well as usefulness?

  4. The Man is formed from the ground, given life by God and placed in the garden to work and care for it. What does this tell us about what humans are like and what our purpose is?

  5. God tells the man he may freely eat from every other tree. What does this reveal about God’s generosity?

  6. Why Might God have included a tree that requires a boundary? What opportunity does this boundary give humanity?

  7. “It is not good for the man to be alone” is the first time something is called “not good.” What does this teach us about our need for relationship?

  8. What do verse 24 and 25 teach us about the nature of marriage and intimacy?

Apply

  1. Which gifts in this chapter do you most often take for granted? How could you practise gratitude for that gift this week?

  2. Where do you most deeply feel that the world is not as it should be? How might that longing point you towards the life with God for which you were made?

  3. Which part of the world pictured in Genesis 2 do you most long to experience fully?

Pray

Thank God for the good gifts that remain in his creation. Bring him the places where life feels broken, and ask him to deepen our longing for the world made new and for life with him.