- How has the topic of the covenants confused you in the past?
- What was your initial understanding of the covenants?
- How have you resolved the positive benefits of God’s promise with the negative repercussions of the judgment toward human sinfulness?
- Why do you think God used multiple generations to reveal His covenant?
- How does seeing the Ten Commandments as a promise instead of rules change your spiritual perspective?
- What questions arise seeing that all the covenants mentioned in the Bible, even when they contain some unique components and may be expressed differently, have one and the same purpose?
- What is a contemporary example of a covenant you have made?
- What lessons can you derive from this covenant that parallel God’s covenant with us?
- How does the apparent complexity of God’s solution reveal the complexity of humanity’s problem?
- What does a promise-making and a promise-keeping God mean to you?