Title: "Running Away From Home"

1. Recount the story of the little boy Andy told about using a suitcase as an illustration. Did you ever run away from home? If so, why? In what ways do we tend to run away from God? Read vv. 1-2 and explain the significance of this event taking place “in the east.”

2. Read v. 3. How were these people driven by autonomous hearts? How were they like Eve? Read v. 4. What three aspects of their ambition reveal not just autonomous but defiant hearts?

How was their drive to build a city/tower a defiant rejection of the Creation Mandate in 1:28? Share about some way in which you have wanted God to play a subordinate role in your story instead of you playing a subordinate role in his story. What example did Andy give in his life?

3. Read vv. 5-9. What three aspects of God’s heart are revealed in these verses? Where else do we see them expressed in the biblical storyline? What makes God, alone, our true home?