Garden City by John Mark Comer
Week 2: Chapter 1 — In the Beginning
Read Chapter 1 of Garden City. Primary Scripture: Genesis 1:1–2:3.
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Comer begins where the Bible begins — with a God who works, who creates, who takes raw chaos and shapes it into a cosmos of beauty and order. This week, let Genesis 1 be not just a story about origins but a mirror held up to your own identity.
Discussion Questions
6 questions1.Comer makes much of the fact that the very first thing the Bible shows us about God is that he works. Why does it matter that God is, before anything else, a Worker and a Maker? How does that change how you think about work?
2.Genesis 1 depicts God bringing order out of chaos — forming and then filling the formless void. Comer draws on this structure to suggest that all human work follows the same pattern. Can you identify a project or task in your own life that fits this 'forming and filling' pattern?
3.The phrase 'it was good' rings like a refrain through Genesis 1. What does it mean that God evaluated his work and called it good? What might it look like for you to do the same with your own work?
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