Welcome to this Digging into Scripture Ourselves (DISO) study of Genesis 3. Thanks for joining me here!
As I mentioned last week, this is the first of a series of seven studies I’m calling Restoration. These are passages I studied years ago using the original “20 Questions” version of DISO, but those posts are no longer available online. To avoid confusion, I’ve decided to work through the passages again with the newer process rather than simply republishing those old posts. I’m excited to see what the Holy Spirit reveals now and compare that to what I discovered previously!
Let’s Study Genesis 3!
This week, I’ll begin by praying and surveying Genesis 3. If you want to work along with me, here’s what I recommend you have ready:
- A copy of Genesis 3, plus access to the entire book of Genesis.
I like to refer often to the text I’m studying and sometimes make notes on it, so I copy the passage from www.blueletterbible.org, paste it into a word processing program like Google Docs or MS Word, change the formatting to suit my preferences, and print it out. If you want to use the ESV translation, here’s a pdf of my Scripture study sheet with lots of room for doodles and notes. - A study journal.
We’ll spend the next seven weeks immersed in and learning about Genesis 3, and the work we’ll do each week builds on what came before, so plan to record at least some highlights from your work over the coming weeks. I’m old-school and like the pen-and-paper method for journaling my studies, but it’s okay if that doesn’t work for you. If you don’t have time to write out or type your notes, consider dictating them into a notes app, or recording audio files, instead.
Or, you may decide to just read the posts I publish here. That’s good, too because it will help you become more familiar with the process and show you how the Spirit speaks to my situation. You may find that’s enough to make it worth your while to keep checking in with me, even if you can’t dig into Genesis 3 yourself this time.
Dig-In Challenges
So, here’s how I’ll be studying this week:
- PRAY: I’ll be creating a prayer that I can pray every time I study Genesis 3. I’m going to write it in my study journal, so I’ll have it handy each time I study.
- SURVEY: And then I’ll read Genesis 3, noting anything that makes me say, “huh?” (as in, “I wonder what that means?”) or “wow” (as in, “that is so awesome!”). I’ll record these and later ask the Spirit to direct me to the one I should dig more deeply into right now.
If you’d like more information about these steps, check out this printable summary of the process I’ll be using over the next eight weeks. Or, you can always reach out to me with your questions through my contact page or at jen@jencason.com. I’m looking forward to sharing what I discover in this process with you, along with snippets of my previous study from 2020 as appropriate—I hope you’ll keep checking in with me each week!