Over the next three weeks, Points to Ponder will not only guide you through the sermon text but will also incorporate the booklet readings and exercises. Use these questions on your own, with a household, or in a small group.

Opening reflection

1. Before this series, had you thought much about what the Bible might say about technology? Why or why not? What is your general disposition toward the role technology currently plays in your life and in the world around you?

2. The booklet defines technology simply as any tool or method we develop. How does this broader definition change the conversation? What does it help you notice that a narrower definition (phones, computers, AI) might miss?

Reading the text: Genesis 1

3. Read Genesis 1:1. Why is it significant that creation is the intentional act of God? What difference does intention make to how we understand the world — and our place in it?

4. Read through the rest of Genesis 1. List the things God does in this chapter. What do these actions tell us about who God is and how he relates to creation?

5. What do you notice about how God creates — the pace, the order, the diversity, the repeated declarations of goodness? What might these say about God's character?

Image-bearers and vocation

6. Read Genesis 1:26–31 and Genesis 2:15. What were humans created to be? What were we created to do?

7. Return to your list from question 4 (what God does in Genesis 1). Since we are created in God's image, how does that list help us understand the shape of human vocation?

8. What does it mean that God chose to involve us in his work of cultivating creation, rather than completing it himself? What does this say about his patience and his love?

Technology as part of the vocation

9. If our vocation is to reflect God by working, cultivating, and creating, how does this reframe the way we think about technology? What kinds of questions should we be asking about the tools we use?

10. What are some things you regularly do that reflect God's character — caring for others, creating, ordering, cultivating, working faithfully? How does technology help you do these things well? Where might it be getting in the way?

Engaging the booklet

11. Talk through this week's exercises. If you've started them, what have you begun to notice? If you haven't yet, what is drawing your attention — or what feels challenging?