"It was a dark and stormy night;" was the opening line of every book Snoopy ever started to write in the Peanuts comic strip. There's something about opening lines. You know, for example, when you hear the phrase "Once upon a time," that you are about to hear a story.
Opening lines set the stage; they introduce the plot and characters. They set everything in motion.
This Sunday at Christian Life Center as we continue our journey with the fifth week of the Truth Project, we are going to set this story in motion. You can't understand God's story without starting in Genesis 1.
The story is really quite simple. It starts out in the Garden of Eden, when the world is good. We get all the way into chapter three before man falls apart. God sets into motion a redemptive plan while man continues to rebel and fall.
God sends his son, and man rejects him. God initiates a final covenant called the church. Some people respond to it; some don't. The church is sent forth into the world to retell the story. Some people receive it; some don't. Ultimately God returns and takes us back into a garden.
When we look at chapter one of the creation story, we find ourselves with what one man calls the prelude and the plot. It is musical and poetic, and it sets up the story. The underpinning assumption is that the story begins with an act of God: "In the beginning God."
If you accept the statement "In the beginning God," then everything else about Scripture falls into place and leaves no room for debate. Genesis 1:1–2 sets the stage for everything that's going to happen!
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