Session 2 Discussion Questions - "Original Blessing"
1. Do you read the Bible as a devotional, as story that describes how things are, as history that explains how things came to be, as a confession of faith in the God of Scripture, or some combination?
2. When you think of "creation," what comes to mind? Is it a point in history? Is it something that God does? Is it something that we do? What about the word creating? How does moving from a noun (creation) to a verb (Creating) affect how you think about God's activity?
3. If we extend "creation" to "cfreating and still sustaining," then where do you see God at work? and where do you see God using humans - including you - to share in God's creative activity?
Read Luke 10:25-37
1. How is the Samaritan serving as a steward of God's creation?
2. Jesus lifts up the Samaritan as an example of someone who fulfills God's great commandments. While we will spend more time discussing God's law in chapter four, for now it may be useful to consider how God's laws lead us to caring for our relationship with God, and our relationship with each other and creation. Can you think of any laws - either in the Bible or in our world - that don't seem to be concerned with these two things?
3. The Samaritan extends his care for his neighbor by not only taking the man to the inn but also by paying the innkeeper to keep him for as long as necessary. If we were to make this story contemporary, what other kinds of things might a "good Samaritan" do in this situation to care for neighbor? (For example, we might advocate that lights were up on the road from Jericho to Jerusalem to make it more safe, or we might ask that more police be assigned to the roads, etc.) Feel free to be creative. Sometimes we most fully appropriate a biblical story by extending it into our own world and lives.
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