Good Creation

For 2020, we're spending the entire year exploring the Bible, its story, and significance for us as followers of Jesus. Here is our working definition of the Bible: “The Bible is a library of writings that are both divine and human, that together tell a unified story, which leads us to Jesus.”

This past Sunday we started our next mini-series in the ‘Year of Biblical Literacy’ called, ‘The Story of God.’ We’re exploring the 4 Acts of the Bible: Creation, Fall, Redemption, Restoration. For our fist week, we talked about God’s ‘Good Creation’ — About how we really have to be intentional about making sure we step into the whole story of God and start with the beginning. If we don’t understand the whole story and if we don’t start with the beginning — focusing on God’s creation being good and humans being his image-bearers — then we’re likely to miss the context of the rest of the Bible. Take a listen and dive in as we discuss how this story is a grand story, a counter story, a good story, a love story, and a true story!

Resources:

• ‘Genesis Unbound’ — Book by John Sailhamer

• ‘Science, the Bible, and the Promised Land.’ — Summary Article of Genesis Unbound

• ‘Lecture on Human Origins’ — Lecture by John Walton

• ‘Creation is the Temple Where God Rests’ — Article on BioLogos