January 9, 2023
Grow-Go-Sow Lesson 2
CREATION
Text: Genesis 1:1–2:14
Topic(s): Worship, Creation
Big Idea of the Message: God is the Creator and Ruler of all in existence. Because of this, he deserves our worship.
Application Point: Does our view of God compel us to worship him with our life?
Discussion Questions:
1. What is one thing that stood out to you from this week’s message?
2. What characteristics come to mind when you think of God? What biblical passages undergird your understanding of him?
3. What does it mean to be made in God’s image?
4. Why does God’s role as creator of the universe mean that we must worship him?
5. Does your view of God compel you to worship him?
Before leaving earth, Jesus commands his followers to make disciples of all nations.
Jesus rose again, his physical body made alive again. Although Thomas had his doubts about the resurrection, Jesus presented him with the evidence he needed.
All of Scripture points to Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection.
Though innocent, Jesus was crucified to fulfill God’s promise of redemption.
At the Passover meal, Jesus instituted the practice of Communion—a vital ritual that reminds us of the atonement.
In this passage, Jesus explains that following him involves being willing to embrace enormous sacrifices.
Jesus didn’t come to destroy God’s work in the Old Testament but to fulfill what it had been always pointing toward: a pure righteousness through Jesus Christ.
Jesus displayed his power to heal spiritually by healing physically.
As Jesus explains to Nicodemus, it is only through being recreated by the Spirit (made possible by Jesus’s ministry) that one can be made right before God.
Jesus’s baptism and temptation represent his identification with humanity’s failures and sin, as well as his anointing and preparation to preach the gospel.
