The Search for Significance by Robert S. McGee
Week 2: Chapter 1 — The Origin of the Search
Read Chapter 1 of The Search for Significance. Key Scripture: Genesis 3:1-13; Romans 5:12-19.
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This week we trace the search for significance back to its source — the Fall — and discover why every human heart carries a wound that no human achievement can heal.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.McGee traces our broken self-concept all the way back to the Garden of Eden. How does the Fall in Genesis 3 explain not just the problem of sin in general, but specifically the problem of shame and the need to hide? What changed in Adam and Eve's self-perception the moment they sinned?
2.McGee describes how Satan's original strategy was to make humanity doubt God's word and God's goodness — essentially to make us believe that God was withholding something we needed. How do you see that same strategy at work in the false beliefs he identifies? What is Satan still trying to convince us God is withholding?
3.Romans 5 contrasts what we lost in Adam with what we gain in Christ. How does understanding the theological category of the Fall help you feel less alone in your struggle with insecurity? Does it change anything to know this is a universal human problem rooted in a specific historical event?