KINGDOM EXPANSION
GENESIS 11:1-9
Application Guide
READ THE TEXT
GENESIS 11:1-9
1 The whole earth had the same language and vocabulary. 2 As people migrated from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make oven-fired bricks.” (They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.) 4 And they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let’s make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered throughout the earth.”
5 Then the Lord came down to look over the city and the tower that the humans were building. 6 The Lord said, “If they have begun to do this as one people all having the same language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let’s go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” 8 So from there the Lord scattered them throughout the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 Therefore it is called Babylon, for there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the Lord scattered them throughout the earth.
APPLICATION QUESTIONS
In general, was there anything that stood out to you from the sermon or the reading of the text? Was there anything you were encouraged or confused by?
What was the motivation behind the Tower of Babylon being built? Was this motivation in line with God’s plan for humanity?
What are some of the reasons behind our efforts of taking the gospel to the unreached?
The message contained five practical ways for Christians to be involved in Kingdom expansion (go, send, pray, mobilize, welcome). To which one do you feel like the Spirit is calling you in this season of life?
Have you ever considered that the Spirit might ask you to go to an unreached people? Why or why not?
How was the gospel and the work of Jesus magnified through the text or sermon?
Is there anything the Spirit is calling you to obey as an individual or as a group?