GO SPORT
Why we love to play sport
Study 4
Ready
Why does my performance in sport affect how I feel about myself?
For many of us, how we perform in our sport, what we achieve and who we play often defines how we feel, how we view ourselves or how we want others to see us. Why does this happen? What does the Bible teach us about the relationship between our sport and God?
Set
Read: Genesis 1:26-27
1. What is the big idea or key theme of this section?
2. What repeated words do you see?
3. What do you think it means to be made in the image of God?
What you need to know:
Genesis is the opening book of the Bible and the opening 3 chapters give us a blueprint for how God made us and the characteristics that we share with him. In Chapters 1 & 2 we see God makes all things including mankind and that it is all very good.
Read: Genesis 2:15-18
4. What does verse 15 tell us about what it looks like for us to be made in the image of God?
5. What does verse 18 tell us about what it looks like to be made in the image of God?
6. What are Adam and Eve not to do in verses 16-17 and why?
We are created in God’s image, that means that we have the capacity to use creatively the talents that God has given us to bring him glory – to show the world the amazing God that he is! We are made to be relational with him and others. This can be seen clearly in sport.
