Day6 live idea

An important part of BSF Leadership is passage discovery/homiletics. It's my favorite take-away from BSF that gives me freedom to explore scripture and learn more after doing the day-by-day lesson. Often times we don't get into Day 6 of the lesson before the discussion time is over and many non-leaders in BSF don't know what homiletics is. So I thought about creating a space to share Day6 as an above and beyond option for people who are really into it or new leaders who are just getting starting and my be feeling overwhelmed. So I got the day6.live domain as I was contemplating these things. 

 "Day 6" in the Bible points in two directions — the sixth day of creation in Genesis 1, and the broader symbolism the number six picks up elsewhere. Here's both.

The sixth day itself (Genesis 1:24–31)

• Land animals — livestock, creeping things, and wild beasts, each "according to its kind," sharing the day with humanity. Humans are grouped with the land creatures, then sharply distinguished from them.
• The image of God — "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." The deliberative plural, and the fact that God speaks about humanity rather than simply commanding it into being, sets this act apart from the previous five days.
• Male and female — both bear the image; the text gives no hierarchy in the bearing of it.
• Blessing and mandate — be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, subdue it (kabash), have dominion (radah). Often called the creation mandate or cultural mandate.
• Vegetarian provision — seed-bearing plants given as food to humans and animals alike, with no killing in view before Genesis 9.
• "Very good" — the only day that gets the intensified verdict (tov me'od) rather than plain "good." The sixth day completes and crowns the sequence.
• Genesis 2 then retells the same day up close: dust, the breath of life, the garden, the naming of animals, the woman drawn from the man's side.

Six as a symbolic number

• Labor before rest — six days of work, then Sabbath (Exodus 20:9–11); six years of service, freedom in the seventh (Exodus 21:2); six years of sowing, then the land's rest (Leviticus 25).
• Preparation day — the sixth day is when Israel gathers double manna for the coming Sabbath (Exodus 16:22–26). It's the day of getting ready.
• Falling short of seven — since seven signals completeness, six often carries a sense of the not-quite. Goliath stands six cubits with six pieces of armor; Nebuchadnezzar's image is sixty cubits by six; Revelation 13:18 gives 666 as "the number of a man."
• New-creation typology — many readers connect the crucifixion, which John places on the preparation day (the sixth), to the sixth day of creation: Pilate's "Behold the man," Jesus' "It is finished" echoing the finishing of Genesis 2:1, then rest in the tomb through the Sabbath. Paul's "last Adam" (1 Corinthians 15:45) and "the image of the invisible God" (Colossians 1:15) run along the same line.