Week 5 (Oct 6 - 12) – Attitude

Opening Question / Icebreaker:

• What is your favorite fruit and your favorite vegetable?  Do you enjoy gardening? 

Pray Together  

Scripture – Read Genesis 2:8-17 together https://www.esv.org/Genesis+2/

Observation & Interpretation Questions:

• What were the reasons that God placed Adam (“the man”) in the Garden of Eden?  (see Gen. 2:8-9)

• What do you think it looked like for Adam to “work” the Garden and “take care of it” in Gen. 2:15?

• “To take care of” suggests management, governance and stewardship.  Are those words synonymous?  Why or why not?

Scripture – Read Psalm 24 together https://www.esv.org/Psalm+24/

Observation & Interpretation Questions:

• What is the general message of this Psalm?  What is the picture that David, the author, paints of God? 

• This Psalm is a Psalm of ascent – about the Israelites going up and into the city of God to worship.  What is the connection between verse 1 and worship? 

Application Questions:

• What are contemporary examples of a person who lives with the attitude that God owns everything, and we are simply His stewards or managers?   

• How can you worship God with all that He has provided you? 

Closing Activity:

• Share with the group one way your life might be different if you viewed everything as belonging to God. 

Close in Prayer – Pray for each other that God would grow an attitude of stewardship and worship