The Mayfield Class

Reflection Questions

1. What does this genealogy reveal about the way God works slowly, quietly, and faithfully over long stretches of time? How does that challenge our desire for instant results?
2. Abram was an idolater when God called him. What does that reveal about the nature of grace, and how does it challenge our assumptions about who God can save?
3. Abram obeyed God without knowing where he was going. What is one area of your life where God is calling you to obey without full clarity?
4. Why do you think obedience becomes harder as we get older? What habits in your life are forming you toward obedience, or away from it?
5. Where do you tend to skim the Bible? What does 2 Timothy 3:16-17 teach you about the value of slowing down and reading Scripture deeply in light of Genesis 11:10-32?

Reflection Questions

1. Where in your life do you sense a quiet desire to “stay in one place” spiritually, avoiding the risk, obedience, or scattering God is calling you to?
2. Why is pride so often disguised as productivity, ambition, or “just being responsible”?
3. What would it look like for you to live as someone sent, not someone settled?
4. How does Jesus succeed where the builders of the Tower of Babel failed?
5. Where do you sense God gently frustrating your plans, and how might that be His mercy?

Reflection Questions

1. Where have you seen God “remember” you, by Him stepping into your story with His mercy, provision, or rescue? How does recalling those moments strengthen your trust in Him today?
2. Noah’s first act after stepping onto dry ground was worship. What would it look like for worship to be the “first thing” in your life?
3. Noah waited, trusted, and obeyed even when God was silent. Where is God asking the two of you to wait patiently right now? What does faithful obedience look like in that area?
4. Noah walked with God for centuries, yet fell when he relaxed spiritually. Where are you most tempted to “ease up” spiritually? What safeguards or rhythms can help you stay alert?
5. God blessed Noah’s family and sent them out. What kind of spiritual legacy do you want to build? What is one step could you take this month to move toward that legacy?

Reflection Questions

1. What does it really mean that Noah was “a righteous man” and “walked with God”? How does Hebrews 11:7 help us understand that?
2. Noah obeyed God for decades without seeing results. Where in your life is God calling you to long‑term obedience without visible payoff?
3. How does Noah’s example of being a herald of righteousness (2 Peter 2:5) encourage or convict you in your own calling to bear witness to Christ?
4. How does this passage reshape your understanding of what it means to “walk with God” in a world moving in the opposite direction?
5. What is one area of your life where you know God is calling you to obey, but you’ve been delaying, rationalizing, or resisting?

Reflection Questions

1. What does it practically mean for you to “walk with God” in this season of life?
2. Genesis 5 repeats “and he died” over and over. How does the brevity of life shape the way you think about your priorities, your marriage, and your legacy?
3. Genesis 6:5 says every intention of man’s heart was “only evil continually.” What does this reveal about the seriousness of sin? How does it challenge the way we sometimes minimize or excuse our own sin?
4. God is grieved by sin (Gen. 6:6). What does it do to your heart to know that your sin grieves God, not because He is surprised, but because He loves you?
5. Genesis 6:8: “But Noah found favor.” Where have you personally experienced God’s “But God…” grace in your life? How does that grace motivate obedience rather than passivity?

Reflection Questions

1. What does today’s passage teach us about sin? What does it teach us about God’s Amazing Grace towards sinners? 
2. Cain’s murder of Abel was ultimately an act of hatred toward God. How does this reshape the way you think about “ordinary” sins, like being impatient with your spouse or children, bitterness, lust, comparison, or harsh words? What does repentance look like in those moments?
3. Cain’s rebellion eventually produces Lamech, who is violent, vengeful, and sexually unfaithful. How does Genesis 4 challenge us to think about the spiritual legacy you are building within your marriage and home? What habits or routines are you doing or could you start doing that help you disciple your children and point them to Jesus rather than leaving that to the world?
4. Moses ends the chapter by telling us that Seth’s line is marked by worship. “At that time people began to call upon the name of the Lord.” What does it look like for your home to be marked by worship rather than worry, busyness, or distraction? What are steps you can start taking to lead your family in that endeavor?

Reflection Questions

1. Where do you see Jesus in this passage, and what does this passage teach us about Jesus? 
2. What does God’s judgment on Eve teach us about the brokenness we feel in marriage, parenting, and relationships? How does that brokenness point us back to Jesus?
3. What does God’s judgment on Adam teach us about work, frustration, and the longing for meaning? How does this passage expose the ways we try to find identity in our work?
4. How does this passage help you love God more deeply and guard against abandoning your “first love”? What are some routines or habits that could help you continually love God?

Reflection Questions

1. How does the serpent’s strategy in Genesis 3 mirror the way temptation works in our lives today? Why do you think subtle temptations are often more dangerous than obvious ones?
2. Which of Satan’s three attacks, distorting God’s Word, denying God’s judgment, or questioning God’s goodness, do you find yourself most vulnerable to? Why do you think Satan begins with a question rather than a direct contradiction?
3. Eve knew God’s command, but she didn’t cling to it. What keeps us from holding tightly to God’s Word? What are practical ways we can grow in loving, knowing, and understanding Scripture?
4. Which of Satan’s three attacks, distorting God’s Word, denying God’s judgment, or questioning God’s goodness, do you find yourself most vulnerable to? Why do you think Satan begins with a question rather than a direct contradiction?
5. Paul tells us to “stand firm” in Ephesians 6. What does standing firm look like in your week ahead?

Reflection Questions

1. Genesis 2 repeatedly emphasizes “The Lord God” as the One who forms, provides, and brings. How does remembering that marriage is God‑initiated and not human‑invented shape the way we approach our own marriages?
2. God declares Adam’s aloneness “not good” before Adam ever feels it. What does this reveal about God’s care, wisdom, and understanding of our needs?
3. The Hebrew word helper is used of God Himself throughout the Old Testament. How does this elevate, not diminish, the role of the wife?
   • Husbands: What does it look like to honor your wife as your God‑given helper in the exalted, biblical sense, not the worldly or sinful sense?
   • Wives: How does seeing your role through the lens of God’s own helping character bring dignity and purpose to your calling?
4. What does Adam’s response in verse 23 teach us about how we should view our spouse? What habits currently help you, or could you start, that would help you be thankful for your spouse? 
5. Leave = loyalty. Cleave = holding fast / covenant. What are some subtle ways that husbands and wives can fail to leave and cleave? Ex: parents, friendships, habits, hobbies, priorities… 
6. One flesh expresses the deepest intimacy, such as physical, emotional, spiritual, and covenantal. How does this shape the way you think about the purpose of sex in your marriage?
7. Paul says in Ephesians 5:32 that marriage “refers to Christ and the church.” Where have you seen the gospel displayed in your marriage, or in the marriages of others?

Reflections Questions

1. How does the image of God breathing life into Adam (vs 7) deepen your understanding of Scripture being “God‑breathed”? 

2 Like Adam (vs 15-17), where do you most feel the pull to “do it your way” instead of trusting God’s Word? What does the command in verses 16–17 teach us about the nature of obedience and trust?

3. In light of Gen 2:1-3, what would it look like for you to practice Sabbath as a routine and habit of remembering God’s creation, salvation, and faithfulness?

4. If God wasn’t tired, what does it mean that He “rested”? How does this reshape your understanding of Sabbath?