1) Read Genesis 6.  What thoughts or questions came to mind as the Word was read?
2) Share a story of being rejected by the world.
3) Social solitude – Noah chose to obey rather than be relieved of the mockery.  Share a story of how God worked in your life when you chose to obey rather than compromise.
4) Preserving  / protecting solitude – God shut Noah in the ark. Share a story of God keeping you or pulling you away from the world to spare and save you.
5) Share a story of when you compromised spiritually under “peer pressure” in the face of the threat of being excluded.
6) Read Isaiah 53:1-6.  How can we be certain that Jesus knows how rejection feels?
7) How does this story inform our view of God’s utter holiness?
8) Why does God have the right to destroy the whole earth?
9) What causes pre-Christians to read this story and call God capricious and vindictive?
10) What does this story tell us about the purpose of our vocation?
11) What does this story tell us about the need to persevere until Jesus comes?  See Matthew 7:21-23
12) How can we pray for ECB and for our group right now?