Coram Deo Church — Bremerton, WA

Discipleship Questions 1. What differences do you see between the genealogy of Noah’s family in Genesis 10 and Shem’s family in Genesis 11? In what ways do these differences matter? 2. Take a moment to consider how God has entered into your story and rescued you. In what ways has He showed His faithfulness to you? 3. Are there any habitual sins or idols that you need to turn from? In what ways can...

Discipleship Questions 1. What does the text teach us about the motives behind building the Tower of Babel? 2.  What does the story teach us about the right and wrong ways to approach God? 3.  According to the text, how can confusion and division be a gift to humanity?

Discipleship Questions  1. How does our common ancestry in Noah change the way you look at people from other cultures or ethnicities? 2.  Take a moment to quickly look over Genesis 1-10.  What do you notice about the presence of genealogies?  Why do you think these were so important for Israel to know and remember?   3.  Genesis 10 demonstrates the cascading affects and generational impact that ou...

Discipleship Questions 1.  How does the Bible transform the way you relate to your vocation or calling?  How does God use your work to bring form and/or fullness to the world? 2.  What is your relationship to alcohol?  How does the Bible shape and form the way you think about and relate to alcohol? 3.  What does it look like to honor your parents?  In what ways have you done this well?  In what wa...

Discipleship Questions 1.  Noah’s sacrifice and worship are his response to God’s rescue.  How do you see this pattern repeated in Scripture?  How is it different from God’s arrangement with Adam in Genesis 2? 2. According to Genesis, why is the death penalty humane and protective? 3. How might Noah and subsequent generations find hope and assurance in the sign of the Noahic Covenant?

Discipleship Questions 1.  Genesis 8 is a re-creaton story.  Take a moment to look over Genesis 1.  What is similar between chapter 1 & 8?  What is difference? 2.  How does God’s salvation and preservation of Noah shape the way we think about the future of redemption? 3.  Read  Isaiah 11:6-19.  In what ways with the New Creation be like our current world?  In what ways will it be different?

Discipleship Questions 1. According to the text, why did God send the flood?  What does this teach us about the nature of God and the nature of humanity? 2.  Why did God provide the ark?  In what sense is the ark a picture of the gospel? 3.  In what sense was God’s judgment (the flood) also a saving act?

Discipleship Questions Text: Genesis 6:9-22 1. The author of Genesis describes Noah as a righteous man, blameless in his generation, and as a man who walked with God. How does Hebrews 11:7 help us to better understand this? 2. What is a covenant? Why do you think God relates to His people in covenants? How does this give us hope? 3. How does this text point us to the hope found in Jesus? How might...

Discipleship Questions 1.  Based on the text, who do you think the “sons of God” are?  Why? 2.  What does this text teach us about the righteousness of God?  What other attributes of God are highlighted in this text? 3.  How does this text connect with you personally?  What personal applications can you make?

Discipleship Questions 1.  If you sat down to talk about your family history, what names and stories would stand out? What might this teach you about what’s happening in Genesis 5? 2.  Why do you think God chose to record specific names tracing the family line from Adam to Noah?  What does this teach us about what God values? 3.  How did your family shape and influence the way you think about God?

Discipleship Questions 1.  In what ways is the city/culture described in this text similar to our own culture? 2.  What are cascading effects of sin as demonstrated in this text? 3.  What sins in your life have you been ignoring?  What can you do to begin addressing them? 4.  How is God keeping his promise to Eve?

Discipleship Questions 1.  Take a moment to reread the first half of Genesis 3.  Compare the ways that Adam, Eve, and Cain experience temptation and deal with their sin.  What has changed?  What is the same? 2.  How does Cain’s sin grow throughout Genesis 4?  What can this teach us about the nature of sin.  How have you personally experienced this? 3.  How would you characterize God’s response to...

Discipleship Questions 1. John tells us that God is love. How does this effect God’s other attributes? 2. How does Jesus as the propitiation for sins reveal God’s love to you? How does this effect your view of God as the God of love? 3. In what ways do you struggle to show love to others? How does the gospel empower you to love as Jesus loved? 4. Are there specific people you have been withholding...

Discipleship Questions 1.  John is writing that we might experience joy.  How would you define joy in your own words?   2.  In these few verses, John repeats himself several times.  Why do you think he does this?  What is trying to communicate to us? 3.  What different words does John use to refer to Jesus?  What do each of these words communicate to us about Jesus? 4.  John writes not just for th...

Discipleship Questions 1.  According to Matthew, what is the primary purpose for which was Jesus born?  How does this affect the way we read the rest of the Bible? 2.  In what ways  are you tempted to reduce Jesus to something other than savior of sinners? 3.  Read Isaiah 53:5.  Take a few moments to consider specific personal sins that Jesus came to die for.   4.  Read 2 Corinthians 5:21.  What d...

Discipleship Questions 1.  What questions do you have about the virgin birth of Jesus?  What is confusing?  Inspiring? 2.  Read Romans 5:12-14.  What does that text teach us about the importance of the virgin birth? 3.  How does King Jesus use power and status differently than Caesar or other “earthly” kings? 4.  As citizens of Jesus’ Kingdom, how ought we to use our power, status, and resources d...

Discipleship Questions 1.  How did you experience darkness in your life before coming to faith in Christ?  How has the light of Christ affected your experience of darkness? 2.  All of God’s people are a people of waiting.  Think of a time when you had to wait for God.  What was it like?  How did use that time to shape and form you? 3.  Take some time to reread Isaiah 9:2-5.  Describe in your own w...

Discipleship Questions 1. In what ways do you see people commonly try to “cover” shame and sin? 2. In what ways do you tend to “cover” your shame and sin? 3. How can the gospel bring you hope as you struggle with sin? 4. What lies have you been believing? What Gospel promises do you need to embrace?

Genesis 3:14-19 Discipleship questions 1. Romans 8 tells us that because of sin, the creation (physical world) is groaning. How have you encountered this groaning in your own life? 2. What are the unique consequences that women deal with as a result of the fall? How have you witnessed or experienced these? 3. What are the unique consequences that men deal with as a result of the fall? How have you...

Discipleship Questions 1.  Read through the text and pay special attention to how Satan tempts Eve.  What are his tactics?  What are some of the lies Satan is telling today? 2.  According to the text, why did Eve choose to eat from the forbidden tree?  How have you been tempted by these same desires or motivations? 3.  How did Adam and Eve respond to their sin?  How can you identify with their att...