Beginnings

The beginning.  Where every story starts is the beginning.  We try to be artistic and begin in the middle and do flashbacks, but the middle of the story makes no sense without the beginning.  So the beginning is where we begin as we look at God's story, and how our story connects to God's story.  This first week we look at three main parts of the Story:

1. Creation
2. Decreation
3. Destruction

Everything else in God's Story comes back to these events. 

• Knowing there is a creator gives us a completely different understanding of the world and the purposes of humanity.  
• Knowing that humans are designed with the image of God makes humanity different than all other animals, possessing the possibility of a relationship with the One whose image we bear and holding the responsibilities that go with that relationship.
• Knowing that the best of humanity can fail reminds us that we cannot save ourselves but we need a Savior.
• Knowing that there is consequence to disobedience should remind us of the seriousness with which we need to listen to God's words to us.

The foundations of the world lay with these events.  As we seek to understand these events, the issues of our day will make much more sense.