Friends,
Thank you so much for your participation in our Fall Bible Study this year! I really appreciated and enjoyed all your thoughtful interaction and engagement with this rich material. (Sorry for the two week delay in getting this note out. Life gets in the way sometimes!)
I like to do a survey at the end to see how it all went. You can also give me your ideas for what we should do next! Share your feedback through this brief survey.
Resources
Recap
The last week of our Genesis 1-11 study was more interactive, so I’m not sure how helpful a recap will be! Mainly my hope was to have a conversation about what you all got out of it - and it was quite a rich conversation indeed!
I also wanted to suggest some of the ways these opening chapters of the Bible point us forward to the great climax of the Bible - Jesus. Augustine of Hippo once said that what was concealed in the Old Testament is revealed in the New Testament, and we see this illustrated beautifully in Genesis. Jesus is the true image of God, the true descendent of Eve (who crushes the serpent’s head), a better version of Abel (who gives the good sacrifice to God, and whose murder leads to an even bigger grace for his murderers), and a better Noah (who rescues the Creation from God’s judgment and restarts humanity). And of course there is the connection between the Tower of Babel and the gift of tongues on the first Pentecost! And that’s just a few of the connections off the top of my head. The Scriptures are both deep and wide; my hope is that participating in classes like this one are like being handed scuba gear - giving you the tools to dive in and explore all that Scripture has to offer!
Art
Our art this week was Chagall’s “La Création de l'Homme”. Check it out at that link!
Looking Ahead
Once again, thank you so much for embarking on this journey into the opening chapters of the Bible with me! It was a delight to have you be a part of it!
Don’t forget to fill out the survey and let me know how it went - and what you want to do next!
In Christ,
Pastor Cabe
