Is. 5:1-7
1) I don;t know much about viniculture. One could explore this, or use another garden/agrciulture image, maybe genetic crop engineering.
2) One could use the fruit image and compare to gal. 5:22-3. Serendipity bible (965) asks a cute question about our fruit as budding, premature, developing, diseased, or ripe.
3) When have your hopes for a project been dashed, met, or exceeded?
4) I assume we could link God to the gardener here. What do we learn of God from this image?
5) How can bad fruit emerge from such a garden?
6) Why would Judah be asked to judge the quality of the vineyard?
7) Why destroy the vineyard?Notice wasteland in v. 6
8) V. 7 again gives a social dimenson to what god seeks. Nothing about our pure hearts, nothing about good intentions, nothing about fellowship circles, but social justice.
9) In the end, what kind of song is this (v.1)?