6. How You Got Here and Why It Matters

Introduction

PREMISE: Disconnected islands. A part of a story, plan.

• How God Starts it all, where do I fit?
• God -> angels -> world -> Adam's Family -> Abraham -> Israel/12 Tribes -> Judah -> David -> Jesus -> the church -> me

Genesis 1:1 — In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

If you asked 2nd Century Christians

1. Before the Beginning

2. Sometime around the Beginning: Angels

3. In the beginning, Genesis 1:1

4. Adam's Family

5. Abraham - Isaac - Jacob

6. Israel/12 Tribes

7. Judah

8. David

9. Jesus

10. Apostles & The Church

11. YOU

• Children of God
• Children of Men
• Children of Abraham
• You came from some where