1. Into the Word
Growth Group Homework Read Genesis 3:1-23 and respond to the following:
Week of _September 27, 2009__ 6. What title would you give this chapter?
a. God’s Unreasonable Demands
b. A Declaration of Independence
c. A Severe Mercy
Getting Started d. Fig Leaves Anonymous
e. Paradise Lost
1. What city were you born in and what location in that city was f. God is Betrayed
special to you?
7. Why did God command Adam and Eve to not eat from the
tree of good and evil?
2. Tell about something you have created/made?
What enjoyment did you get from what you made? 8. When Adam and Eve sinned, why did they hide?
9. Who was to blame for the fall? How does God’s judgments
inform your answer?
3. What time of the day are you most creative? Are you an
“early-bird or night-owl”? Do projects wait for a rainy day, 10. How did God show his compassion toward Adam and Eve?
weekend or vacation?
Read Romans 5:12-19 and 8:8-27.
11. How do these verses relate to God’s judgment and
compassion in Genesis 3?
4. Describe one of the most beautiful places you have been? 12. Describe what we once were in God’s eyes? How does the
What impressed you most about that place? death of Christ change all this?
13. From these passages make a list all that God intends to
redeem or make new through Jesus Christ?

2. Application
14. What do you do when you find yourself “naked” (caught in
sin) before others? Before God?
15. How are you most frequently tempted?
a. friends
b. movies, TV, music, magazines, internet
c. my own imagination
d. it just happens
16. For you, what is the worst thing about disobeying God?
17. Genesis tells the story of the beginning of the universe,
the beginning of sin and, perhaps most important, the
beginning of God’s work to restore sinful humanity to
Himself.
a. In this week’s study, what impressed you most?
b. What have you learned about what God requires and
desires of us?
c. How do you plan to respond?