Garden City by John Mark Comer
Week 7: Chapter 6 — The New Humanity
Read Chapter 6 of Garden City. Primary Scripture: Colossians 1:15–20; Romans 8:19–23.
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Comer turns to the New Testament to show that Jesus is not just our Savior but our new Adam — the beginning of a renewed humanity, a restored image, and an inaugurated new creation. This chapter asks: what does the resurrection have to do with your work on Monday?
Discussion Questions
6 questions1.Comer describes Jesus as the 'new Adam' — the one who succeeds where the first Adam failed, not just morally but vocationally. How does seeing Jesus as the model of true humanity and true image-bearing change how you read the Gospels?
2.Paul says in Colossians 1:20 that God was pleased to reconcile 'all things' through Christ — not just souls, but the whole created order. What does a salvation that broad mean for how we engage with culture, work, and the physical world?
3.Comer argues that the resurrection of Jesus is not the rescue of a soul from the world, but the first act of the renewal of the world itself. How does that vision of resurrection shape your understanding of what you're working toward — and working for?
a.If the new creation is a renewal and transformation of this creation rather than its replacement, what does that mean for the value of the work you do now?
b.N.T. Wright's phrase 'building for the kingdom' suggests that our work now has continuity with the new creation. Does that idea excite you or confuse you? Why?
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