In this episode of Words & Ways we'll be looking at the story of creation in the book of Genesis.

Listen for yourself, with small groups, leadership teams, mentoring-discipling relationships and more.

Our hope is that the words and ways of Jesus transform your mind, fill your heart, and encourage your soul today and every day.

SHOW NOTES

Main Passage: Genesis 1:1-2:4

Side Passages: Job 38-39, Psalm 8, 104, 148

DISCUSSION & REFLECTION QUESTIONS:

Think about the two “movements” of creation: first the different spaces and then the specific inhabitants. What do you think about the way the story is told?

Why do you think God said all the individual parts of creation were good and that the complete and finished creation was very good?

Read some of the other creation poems in the Bible (from Job and Psalms, listed above). What do you notice and think about those?

What have you thought about the Biblical creation story in the past? Do you have any new thoughts or ideas now?

What do you learn about God from this story? How does that impact the way you understand and experience him?

Check out this video from BibleProject about the story of creation.

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REFERENCES
For this season of Word & Ways, we’ve learned from many additional written resources, including the following:

The Bible Story Handbook: A Resource for Teaching 175 Stories from the Bible (John H.
Walton and Kim W. Walton, Crossway, 2010)

The Drama of Scripture (Craig G. Bartholomew & Michael W. Goheen, Baker Academic,
2004, 2014)

The Epic of Eden: A Christian Entry into the Old Testament (Sandra Richter, IVP
Academic, 2008)

How to Read Genesis (Tremper Longman, IVP Academic, 2005)

How to Read Exodus (Tremper Longman, IVP Academic, 2009)

The Lost World of … (series of books by John H. Walton, Tremper Longman, et. al, IVP
Academic)

Reading Genesis Well: Navigating History, Poetry, Science, and Truth in Genesis 1-11
(C. John Collins, Zondervan, 2018)

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